Telecom unveils plans for NZ's Ultra-Fast Broadband network
New Zealand's Telecom has unveiled its initial products on the country's new Ultra-Fast Broadband fibre-to-the-premises network. The plans will be available to customers from tomorrow.
New Zealand's Telecom has unveiled its initial products on the country's new Ultra-Fast Broadband fibre-to-the-premises network. The plans will be available to customers from tomorrow.
Shadow communications minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has claimed a 12 megabits per second (Mbps) connection to the home is enough for anybody, with no applications existing today that require additional bandwidth.
Nokia Siemens Networks is the latest to have secured contracts for the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN), with the announcement it will supply optical transmission equipment for the fibre network.
The New Zealand Government agency charged with building the country’s equivalent of the National Broadband Network (NBN) has announced the first three companies to build aspects of the network, but has left incumbent Telecom New Zealand out of the loop.
The Internet Industry Association (IIA) has called for bipartisan support of an wholesale-only fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) broadband network, no matter who wins government on 21 August.