Poland: Voda Against National Roaming

meir · 31-05-2006, 21:28

Well here Vodafone took over Oskar. From than they focused only on making the most profit possible. Basically they did invest too much and there is no new services except Vodafone Live. But similar services have both Eurotel and T-Mobile for a few years now, plus lot of happening on fast data umts/hsdpa. But this is not the case with Vodafone. I can also compare on two other markets. In Cyprus, they are also behind on data, but generally very good coverage. But this because, there partnership with Cyta. In South Africa Vodacom is also partnership 50% local Telekom/50% Vodacom do they better, but I would say most of the new gadgets starts with MTN. Also looks like MTN has better coverage. So to summarise it, my understanding is when Vodacom has 100% shareholding in local company, they focus solely on profit and try to not invest too much. On other side, when they have local partner, the company is more likely to invest in new technologies.
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meir (Offline) Senior Member Prepaid Expert Posts: 269 Join Date: 21 Feb 2006 Location: It's long story Country:	31-05-2006, 21:28 Well here Vodafone took over Oskar. From than they focused only on making the most profit possible. Basically they did invest too much and there is no new services except Vodafone Live. But similar services have both Eurotel and T-Mobile for a few years now, plus lot of happening on fast data umts/hsdpa. But this is not the case with Vodafone. I can also compare on two other markets. In Cyprus, they are also behind on data, but generally very good coverage. But this because, there partnership with Cyta. In South Africa Vodacom is also partnership 50% local Telekom/50% Vodacom do they better, but I would say most of the new gadgets starts with MTN. Also looks like MTN has better coverage. So to summarise it, my understanding is when Vodacom has 100% shareholding in local company, they focus solely on profit and try to not invest too much. On other side, when they have local partner, the company is more likely to invest in new technologies. Howgh