www.WirelessFederation.com/news: 2degrees, the New Zealand based mobile operator, has announced that it will launch 3G services across the nation in 2010. Chief executive Eric Hertz said that while the cellco’s network was 3G capable, the service will not be on offer until the H1′10: ‘As we turn on [the network] and optimise it, it will take some time to make sure the quality is good… There will be a strategic and sequenced roll-out of additional services.’
The operator intends to introduce services based on  W-CDMA platform with built in HSPA+ evolution, capable of delivering peak download speeds of 4Mbps.