For some reason, the Vodafone Coverage page is really difficult to locate on their site …
And it tells me that my new home, Dunedin, is not very well blessed with 3G … up on Highgate, I'll get “excellent” 2.5G, but no 3G or 3G Broadband. Guess I don't need to get too excited about the new iPhones, then …
A great relief to hear that Vodafone NZ will be supporting the iPhone, I presume after the June release of the 3G/GPS models. Probably a deal related to the Australian situation, where unlocked phones seem to be the only way forward for Apple … and therefore no barrier to adpotion in NZ.
Not that it will make any real difference to early adoptors – we're already using more services from our devices than Apple provide, and therefore we're independant of carrier. And I still want a handset separated from a 12 or 24 month contract …
But imagine the impact on businesses – with ActiveSync in place, the iPhone will start to threaten the rollout of Blackberry services that I have to keep on looking at for the larger customers. All we need is a better set of wireless authentication options (client certificate PEAP for a start) and a decent VPN (although I suppose we could support IPSec with too many tears if we had to). Much cheaper than a couple of BES servers and a deal with data going to Canada …