New Zealand finally gets 4G LTE  

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That’s right, 4G LTE is now available in one New Zealand city with a few more to follow this year. It’s crazy fast, supporting throughputs of up to 90mbps and already supports LTE advanced devices (for whenever they’re released) with a total throughput of 140mbps. The above screenshot - taken by [@johnreader](twitter.com/johnreader) last night on a Samsung Galaxy SIII should be enough to blow your pants off.

Disappointingly, there’s no Voice over LTE yet, but hopefully we might see that eventually. Amazing that Vodafone can release this a full year ahead of Telecom NZ who are only just starting trials.

Vodafone seems to think that the current data caps are more than enough (which are on average around 1GB) for 4G, which isn’t good news. Additionally, the company is charging an additional $10/month for access to 4G. That said, the company is launching with a decent few handsets including the iPhone 5, Windows Phone 8X by HTC and Samsung GALAXY Note II 4G variant.

 
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