Telecom offers broadband to go

Telecom mobile general manager Kevin Kenrick showed off the Harrier personal digital assistant at the launch of the company's 3G mobile broadband network in Wellington yesterday.

The network will allow people to surf the web, send email and videoconference with other mobile phone users from just about anywhere in the country.

Kenrick says a variety of new high-speed services will be introduced in the coming months.

Vodafone will soon join Telecom with its own network, setting the scene for a battle ahead. The question now is whether Telecom's $40 million "T3G" upgrade can help it regain ground lost to its nimble competitor. The answer may well be in the technology.