2Degrees: still plenty of growth at the 10 year mark, says new ceo

2Degrees: still plenty of growth at the 10 year mark, says new ceo
Pattrick Smellie
By Pattrick Smellie Aug. 5 (BusinessDesk) - Some said it couldn't be done. Some expected 2Degrees - New Zealand's third largest mobile telecommunications operator - would die on the vine as it simultaneously squeezed margin out of the Vodafone-Spark market stranglehold while ploughing hundreds of millions of dollars into third and fourth generation mobile technology. Now they're saying the same about 5G and new chief executive Mark Aue isn't having any of it. "I always find it somewhat amusing, coming from the likes of (his old firm...

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