Posts by Gareth Ward
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Belt - the iPhone 3G runs on 850Mhz and 2100Mhz (so will work everywhere on XT). The first gen iPhone is not 3G so won't work at all.
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Well one point on coverage for mobile broadband is that Telecom's network is ONLY 3G (soon to be 3.5G). So I believe there is no point anywhere on their 97% coverage map where data should be dramatically slower - i.e. if you can get a voice connection you're probably going to be getting a decent data connection as well.
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Cutting more out of Kiwisaver has a possible risk to political capital though - "Messing with your future super", "Putting our problems onto our grandkids" etc...
And you don't really free up much cash (I'm presuming here).I reckon, cut all the Govt contributions, make it compulsory at 4% (which is the same in the medium-term as the 2+2 we now have given that the "employers" 2% comes out of your wages anyway) and give the funds highly attractive tax levels (15% odd). But that may have to wait for rosier personal times
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I liked it for what it was - Heart of the City are about the CBD.
If you want to advertise the Auckland CBD to New Zealanders then you have to really do it on the "trendy urban environment" thing. What else does it have going for it?
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Water companies the world over have been sold off and the result is always the same.
It's actually quite rare - happened in the UK (and what a mess THAT was) but not in many other spots.
Maybe I'm being naive but I really see the case for privatising water very very hard to make and given the natural public emotional reaction would be helllllll no I just can't see it happening.
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Look for phones that are 850Mhz UMTS - NOT GSM. A lot of people have seen the 850 number on a phone and thought YAY it will work (e.g. Blackberry Storm). But that's 850 GSM which is really quite common.
Plam Pre looks well nice if just for the inductive charging sexiness. Given Telecom have the Palm Treo Pro I suspect the Pre might make a showing here. Released next week in the US I believe?
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Paul Henry isn't a journalist so why the hell does he get to front something like Close Up?
Spouting your own opinion, shutting down the other side and giving free run to those who you agree with is not even close to journalism. -
Is your Voda iPhone definitely locked? I didn't think NZ providers did that?
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because my budget prediction is bye-bye to the $1000 sign-up incentive.
I would hope not. The sign-up numbers have been huge to date, so the number of people still out there to signup to recieve that $1000 is relatively small - it would make relatively little annual impact I should think. (On the flip, I suppose new people entering the work force is an ongoing occurence).
Geez, if they water down Kiwisaver even more I'll... I'll... write a sternly worded blog post somewhere! Our rating is under threat mainly because of our private current account deficit (NOT Govt debt) and deepening private local savings is one obvious way to fix that.
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sell Watercare
I just really can't see how they could possibly spin that? Where would the benefit be in handing over a full monopoly of the most basic necessary to service to private owners? It wouldn't make water cheaper at all, and that's pretty much the only benefit privatisation can bring.