The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
I asked Peter about this and he told me Telstra expected to have a NextG BlackBerry available next month. He talked it up, and I absolutely agree with him the NextG BlackBerry will be a delight to hold. Yet, this simply reinforces the soup Nazi message: “no iPhone for you!
So that’s that then; my only choice to check out an iPhone is to sign it up for a whole new plan. I won’t get free calls between it and the other mobiles in my company. I won’t get its billing included on my consolidated phone bill. I won’t be able to share my monthly voice inclusions with the other mobile users in the company. I won’t have phone calls charged at the corporate pricing that our spend level entitles us to.
The root cause is nothing more, in my opinion, than the Apple demand to have a share in the call charges being levied. I have been given no other reason for the lack of concern for the large-spending enterprise customers than this. Well, unless you count Peter’s view that corporations and governments ought not to be early adopters of technology – but really, I have to ask, how long must a device be out before you can legitimately trial it without being considered a traitor to the perceived way of a CIO?
Still, much of what I say could be moot. After all, Telstra – and all the telcos – have been cagey on the details they spill. All may change tomorrow, July 11th, when the full details of Telstra’s plans are known.
I won’t be the only one watching the news: the last word from my Telstra rep today was “I keep getting conflicting info from internal Telstra... tomorrow all should be revealed to us and I’ll let you know.”
Until then, however, the message to people like me – to those who spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year on telecommunications and IT infrastructure – is clear. “No iPhone for you.” And the message back to Apple is "no push e-mail for you." After all, who do they think will be using it?
David Bass
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