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3G New Zealand June 11, 2007

Posted by ianmartinez in : General, What's New?, Standards , trackback

It looks like Telecom new Zealand has a tentative deal with Alcatel-Lucent for deployment of a nationwide 3G WCDMA/HSPA wireless network, though TMCnet and other sources say the contract hasn’t yet been signed.

Great news for the global standards, community especially coming from a country so geographically isolated. According to Wikipedia:

New Zealand is notable for its geographic isolation, being separated from Australia to the northwest by the Tasman Sea, approximately 2000 kilometres (1250 miles) across. Its closest neighbours to the north are New Caledonia, Fiji and Tonga.

A major question heading into next week’s NXTcomm show is whether China, a major wireless market that’s isolated in other respects, will open up or continue to stick to its nationalized TCDMA standard, drawing criticism even in the rival Indian market.

Here’s hoping China sees more and more of its Asian brethren adopting the de-politicized global standards.

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