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Orcon was the first retailer to begin providing fibre as part of the Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) scheme. [11] In September 2011, Orcon announced that a group of Northland schools were set up for service, with Orcon delivering telecommunications over fibre in partnership with Orewa-based internet service provider Watchdog Corporation Ltd. [12]
The New Zealand Institute think-tank has estimated that the economic benefits of competitive broadband access could be worth as much as NZ$4.4 billion a year to New Zealand's gross domestic product. [ 70 ] [ 71 ]
Chorus is a provider of telecommunications infrastructure throughout New Zealand.It is listed on the NZX stock exchange and is in the NZX 50 Index.The company owns the majority of telephone lines and exchange equipment in New Zealand; and was responsible for building approximately 70% of the country's fibre-optic UFB network, receiving a government subsidy of $929 million to do so.
The Ultra-Fast Broadband initiative is a New Zealand Government programme of building fibre-to-the-home networks covering 87% of the population by the end of 2022. It is a public–private partnership of the government with four companies with total government investment of NZ$1.5 billion. [ 1 ]
Fixed-line broadband and telephone services were largely provided through copper-based networks, but fibre-based services now represent the majority of connections. Spark New Zealand, One NZ, and 2degrees provide most services, while a number of smaller mobile virtual network operators also exist.
That's unless you're Vodafone, which has today announced it's abolishing line rental charges for its fibre broadband altogether in what it calls an "industry first." Vodafone scraps line rental ...
The company has signed a number of deals with leading telecommunications wholesale providers in Ireland such as In 2017, it announced a €35 million deal with open eir, allowing it to offer almost two million potential customers high-speed broadband and phone services via open eir's nationwide open access network. [12] [13]
Broadband. A dial-up service connects to the internet through a phone line with a maximum speed of 56 kbps. Broadband refers to a connection that transmits a large amount of data at a high speed. A connection having a download speed of 256 kbps or faster is currently classified as broadband.