Comments on: Digital Divide: Three Classes of Internet Citizens

By: G.S.&M Nield

G.S.&M Nield — Tue, 14 Jul 2015 01:20:17 +0000

The Te Wharau community could readily be supplied with functional internet at better than 10Mb/s by the provision of a direct microwave link from the Te Wharau CMAR site to Rangitumau.
Problems arise when endeavouring to communicate to the powers who can enable this update.

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By: jonbrewer

jonbrewer — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 02:06:18 +0000

The 22% figure for all New Zealanders takes into account residents in zone 3 who have FTTN cabinetized or exchange based ADSL2+, but who are not on the UFB or RBI program. This includes towns like Waipukurau and Waipawa.

If taking into consideration the zone 3 numbers you still can’t make the numbers add up, let’s work on it together to get a good count.

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By: Rural Connect

Rural Connect — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 01:32:17 +0000

Congrats on the InternetNZ funding – I look forward to having some additional solutions available to our rural areas.

I wonder about your 22% figure as the percentage of people (who will all be in rural areas) that can access Chorus’ FTTN cabinets. If this were correct, then Vodafone would be extremely disappointed! I recall a figure of, I think, 57% of households in the RBI rural zone would be within range of a FTTN cabinet. Which would put around 14.25% of New Zealanders (not 22%) in to that category. Less would be within the 5Mbps range of a cabinet. These are the customers that will contend for Telecom and Vodafone wholesale services. According to Vodafone, only 2.2% will not achieve the minimum speed of 5Mbps leaving less than 9% who will not have access to Chorus’ network and therefore will choose between Vodafone and satellite or another means.

Do I have that 57% figure wrong?

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