iPhone on XT: take II - it's a success, and simple

The above childish comments are exactly what I'd expect from an uninformed Voda fan boy.

Saying that "Telecom won't have the iPhone. It's too small and poky and its new network is untested for Apple to trust it with its brand."

Umm read below nope the iphone uses the same spectrum as XT and as such is a natural choice for using on the XT network over Vodafones network

You say:" "If Apple doesn't trust them, should you?"

Do you know for a fact who Apple does or doesnt trust??? I doubt it. Refer to my comments about the poster of this drivel being an igorant Vodafone fanboy. Its not as if any iPhone owners have had a fantastic experience on the Vodafone network, so be careful throwing stones when you live in a glass house....

Pointless debate aside, lets look at some facts and inject some reality back into things:

The iPhone uses 850Mhz/2100Mhz spectrum for 3G operations - Telecom's XT network uses 850Mhz and some 2100Mhz - XT fits the iPhone like a glove

Vodafones network is 900Mhz/2100Mhz for 3G so the iphone will sort of work when and if it can see a 2100Mhz cellsite. The iPhone does not support 900Mhz spectrum for 3G

850Mhz gives a significantly larger amount of coverage compared to 2100Mhz (I understand that the coverage from a single 850Mhz cellsite is equal that of up to 4-6 2100Mhz cellsites) so iPhone users should theoretically have a far more robust 3G coverage experience on XT compared to Vodafone.

Because 2100Mhz cellsites dont have the same coverage capabiulties as 850Mhz and the iPheone doesnt do 900Mhz 3G iPhone users on Vodafones network will often find they drop from 3G to 2G depending on their proximity to a 2100Mhz cell site, and as such will often be stuck with slow 2G mobile data speeds. Rural and regional iPhone users are even worse off will usually only get 2G as the bulk of Vodafones 3G rural coverage uses 900Mhz which the iPhone does not support for 3G.

Further making matters worse, switching from 2G to 3G can also result in dropped calls. XT is 100% 3G so failed calls and droipepd data sessions resulting from 2G to 3G handovers is not an issue.

Thankyou

They are called Okta because all the other 4 letter words were used. I hate my Touch

Blair you're so full of .... where's the proof? Even if TelstraClear did get an iphone, it'd go like a dog with fleas on vodamoans (sic) "newtork" (is that what frogs do when they want to say something?)...

Show us the proof or are you just blowing smoke???

Will be lining up at the Telecom store on launch day to swap my iPhone over, Voda coverage is abysmal, was for Pearl and is for iPhone. I only hope XT delivers otherwise going back to smoke signals

Because iPhone has hardware problem with its antenna and wifi module. You need to manually tweak it. And make sure your iPhone is jailbroken. And yes I will ditch my iPhone for a new WM from telecom store on launch day. I will test my iphoe on xt network first. Then I will know the difference in speed between tnz and Voda. Make sure you have constant coverage before you apply the trick above

"can you test the XT chip on a voadfone data card please, I'll lend you mine in you need one"

You are more than welcome to bring it to the Telecom Store, Mate! Let the truth to help u sh*t the mouth.

Cheers

Your Vodafone Data Card will not work on the XT Network as it doesn't support 850Mhz UMTS, which is what Telecom's Network is based upon.

Telecom do you use 2100Mhz UMTS in some cities for extra capacity - but where exactly is not common knowledge.

Yes however Telecom's network is also running on reduced power.....

Do you currently have a 900Mhz UMTS device? I'm thinking you don't.

900Mhz UMTS actually has far superior building penetration than 2100Mhz UMTS.

As for Vodafone deploying 900Mhz UMTS in the cities in the future - who knows - but my bet is that due to most of their customers still using GSM, that will be some years away yet.

This is going to be amazing - good bye voda pre-pay sim, hello nice telecom plan!

iPhones are designed to be run on 850MHz so it's going to be faster and far better than the current patchy Voda 3G coverage.

Does anyone know if Telecom will buy peoples Voda contracts off them?

Keep (most) the profits in NZ :)

As of launch day all iPhones on the XT network cannot receive SMS messages, they can send SMS and send and receive calls but no receiving of SMS messages

A Fix is currently being looked into

I just changed my iPhone to the XT network and it works great!

Can anyone let me know the data costs on the new XT network? any idea on Prepaid XT costs?

Here in australia the 850 mhz and 900mhz is about the same range from a tower and optus far greater coverage then vodafone and 2100 mhz is used in the cities and the iphone works well with telstra 850 mhz and optus and vodafone uses 2100 mhz on the iphone and most iphone owners that are on networks that uses around the uk europe australia and new zealand should be able to get iphones that uses 900mhz 2100 mhz. iphones should come out in a quad band version by now or have a version 1 and 3 like nokia do i would buy an iphone if it was a 900mhz and 2100 mhz or quad band 3g but i went off and got a nokia n96-1 insted