{"id":11,"date":"2012-08-12T03:50:45","date_gmt":"2012-08-12T03:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2017-11-08T09:23:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-07T20:23:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

This online resource has been collated to encourage the uptake and utilisation of New Zealand’s Ultra-Fast Broadband<\/a> (fibre Internet) initiative. We believe by making appropriate and innovative use of this technology it will have a positive impact for the country. Content comes from a variety of sources and we encourage individuals and businesses to contribute.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0website will expand over time to include news, press releases, coverage maps, pricing plans, photographs\u00a0and\u00a0other information\u00a0about UFB in NZ.<\/p>\n

The UFB.org.nz website started out a page collated by the NZ Tech Podcast<\/a>. Paul Spain<\/a> (host of the NZ Tech Podcast) is primary editor of the UFB.org.nz resource. The website is hosted by\u00a0Gorilla Voice<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to contribute content (photos, news, blog posts, press releases,\u00a0etc) please contact: team@nztechpodcast.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Resources and UFB Coverage Maps<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Auckland\/parts of North\/South Islands: Chorus<\/p>\n

– website<\/a> \u2013 coverage map and service availability<\/a> (UFB, ADSL2+, VDSL)<\/p>\n

– website \u2013 UFB\/Fibre coverage map and service availability<\/a> (UFB only)<\/p>\n

Waikato\/Bay of Plenty: WEL Networks \/ Ultrafast Fibre Ltd<\/p>\n

– website<\/a> \u2013 coverage map<\/a><\/p>\n

Northland: Northpower Fibre<\/p>\n

– website<\/a> \u2013 coverage map<\/a><\/p>\n

Christchurch: Enable Networks<\/p>\n

– website<\/a> \u2013 coverage map<\/a><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n

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Additional resources<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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Crown Infrastructure Partners \u2013 website<\/a><\/p>\n

NZ National Broadband Map \u2013 map\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0– old map<\/a><\/p>\n

NZ UFB Retail Service Providers \/ ISPs \u2013 Prices and coverage<\/p>\n

– Kiwilink<\/a><\/p>\n

– Orcon<\/a><\/p>\n

– Snap<\/a><\/p>\n

– Ubergroup<\/a>\u00a0(Whangarei only)<\/p>\n

– WorldNet<\/a><\/p>\n

Geekzone \u2013 website<\/a>\u00a0– UFB forum<\/a><\/p>\n

NZ Tech Podcast \u2013 website<\/a><\/p>\n

In addition to bookmarking this website and coming back for updates, you\u2019ll also keep up-to-date on UFB by listening to the NZ Tech Podcast<\/a>.<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n

Disclosure: Those producing content for this site conduct business with many of the companies\u00a0featured here. This includes (but may not be limited to): Crown Infrastructure Partners (Crown Fibre Holdings), Orcon, WorldNet, Trustpower, Spark (Telecom New Zealand), TelstraClear, Vodafone, XNet. The website is independent and may or may not be endorsed by these companies. Opinions of writers, contributors and third parties may not be those of the editors or publisher.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This online resource has been collated to encourage the uptake and utilisation of New Zealand’s Ultra-Fast Broadband (fibre Internet) initiative. We believe by making appropriate and innovative use of this technology it will have a positive impact for the country. Content comes from a variety of sources and we encourage individuals and businesses to contribute. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13,"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}