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Telecom gets iPhone!

Or, at least one iPhone.At Telecom's results briefing today, investment analysts duly asked the perennial question: when is the company's mobile supremo, Paul Hamburger, going to secure Apple's iPhone for XT?And Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds repli

NBR staff
Fri, 12 Feb 2010

Or, at least one iPhone.

At Telecom’s results briefing today, investment analysts duly asked the perennial question: when is the company’s mobile supremo, Paul Hamburger, going to secure Apple’s iPhone for XT?

And Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds replied with his usual line about not commenting on handset negotiations - although he did say his company was happy with its current line-up.

Apparently not so happy with the current line up was Chorus chief executive Mark Ratcliffe, who was spied totting an iPhone.

Unsure of the sighting, NBR’s special Apple correspondent questioned one of Mr Ratcliffe’s fellow executives later in the day.

“It’s entirely possible. Yes, I think he does,” came the reply.

The executive, who cannot be identified, beyond the fact his first name begins with C and his last name is Quin, has also been spotted several occasions using Apple’s handset.

Throw in the fact that Telecom chief executive Paul Reynolds is a confirmed Apple nut, and that 2degrees chief executive Eric Hertz carries an iPhone, and one thing is clear: there maybe a single official carrier (Vodafone), but everybody’s heart belongs to Apple.

NBR staff
Fri, 12 Feb 2010
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