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Budget phone provider Kogan Mobile enters NZ market with mixed reviews

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Publish Date
Wed, 4 Sept 2019, 3:57pm
Kogan founder Ruslan Kogan. Photo / Michael Craig

Budget phone provider Kogan Mobile enters NZ market with mixed reviews

Author
Newstalk ZB,
Publish Date
Wed, 4 Sept 2019, 3:57pm

A budget mobile phone provider has entered the market but don't expect much in terms of customer service.

Kogan Mobile has up to 400,000 customers in Australia and has now launched in New Zealand.

Telecommunications Users' Association chief executive Craig Young says the company has no staff here.

He told Kate Hawkesby it uses bots - automatic software applications - to do its customer service.

Kogan is a budget online retailer founded by Ruslan Kogan - whose parents arrived from then-Communist Belarus in 1990 with $90 in their pocket.

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