The New Zealand government has finalised its plans for rural telecommunications with Cabinet signing off on plans to rollout high speed broadband in rural areas, and for the reform of the Telecommunications Service Obligations (TSO).
Communications and information technology minister, Steven Joyce, said: “As a result of this plan we are confirming today, 97 percent of [rural] households will have access to broadband services of at least 5Mbps with the remainder reaching at least 1Mbps. For many remote and not-so-remote rural areas this will be light years ahead of where they are today.” …
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