According to the Communications Minister Simon Bridges, more than one-third\u00a0of New Zealanders with access to Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) are now connected. The March 2017 Quarterly Broadband Update released today showed\u00a0the number of households, business, schools, and hospitals who\u00a0connected to UFB which\u00a0increased 12 percent in the past three months to reach\u00a0367,788.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s encouraging to see that strong demand for UFB is continuing, as connectivity continues to improve across New Zealand,\u201d Mr. Bridges says. \u201cThere have been around 40,000 new connections in the past three months, with more Kiwis now having access to greater speeds and being better connected.\u201d<\/p>\n
The quarterly update also shows that deployment for phase one of the UFB programme is almost three-quarters complete, providing 1,103,000 households and businesses with access to a download speed of up\u00a0to 1000 Megabits per second (Mbps).<\/p>\n
Alongside the UFB programme, the Government\u2019s Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) continues to deliver faster broadband to priority users and rural communities outside of UFB areas.<\/p>\n
UFB uptake is expected to continue to rise at a strong pace as demand for broadband increases for personal, educational \u00a0and business use. \u00a0Recent information released by Chorus and Orcon highlighted that users of faster UFB plans are using well above the current average home internet usage in New Zealand which is 151GB per month per household.<\/p>\n<\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to the Communications Minister Simon Bridges, more than one-third\u00a0of New Zealanders with access to Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) are now connected. The March 2017 Quarterly Broadband Update released today showed\u00a0the number of households, business, schools, and hospitals who\u00a0connected to UFB which\u00a0increased 12 percent in the past three months to reach\u00a0367,788. \u201cIt\u2019s encouraging to see that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":368,"featured_media":1209,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[35,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1199"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1207,"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1199\/revisions\/1207"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufb.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}