Telecom NZ set to launch Skinny brand

News Wireless New Zealand 14 NOV 2011
Telecom NZ set to launch Skinny brand
Telecom New Zealand is set to launch a new youth brand in the next few months. The youth-oriented prepaid brand will be called 'Skinny' and will be run as a stand-alone operation with a team of twenty staff, the Dominion Post reports citing Paul O'Shannessy, who heads Skinny. The plan leaked as Skinny's unfinished website was found online.

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