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Porirua Mayor Welcomes Fast Fibre Rollout
News Release
25 August 2011
Porirua Mayor
Welcomes Fast Fibre Rollout
Porirua Mayor Nick Leggett
has welcomed the decision by Chorus to prioritise the
rollout of Ultra-Fast Broadband through fibre-to-the-home to
large parts of Porirua.
Chorus and Crown Fibre
Holdings announced today that they will be rolling out ultra
fast broadband in six areas across the Wellington region in
the first year of deployment.
"Mana, Camborne,
Papakowhai, large parts of Aotea and almost all of Whitby -
areas of our city with some of the highest work-from-home
rates in New Zealand - will have Ultra Fast Broadband rolled
out in year one," Mayor Leggett says.
"This is
fantastic news for our City and it means Porirua had jumped
ahead of some Wellington City suburbs in the queue. People
in Papakowhai, Whitby and Camborne will have blistering
speeds while Karori, Tawa and Kelburn are still using the
old broadband networks," said Mayor
Leggett.
"Residents in these suburbs will be able to
connect to internet speeds of up to 100mbps from their
living room, which will enable people to work from home and
transform educational opportunities for our kids. This is
brilliant news for our City," said Mayor Leggett.
He
says the rollout will be great for local business and it
will also complement existing fibre in Porirua.
"The
Council sees real value in developing local broadband
networks. That's why we set up Smartlinx3 with Upper and
Lower Hutt councils a few years ago to lay fibre in our own
cities and connect them together.
"This new initiative
by Chorus, part funded by the government, will help us plug
some of the gaps. We will be talking to Chorus about how we
can get broadband into the areas that are still missing
out."
Smartlinx3 majority owner iwi consortium
Torotoro Waea has recently announced plans to extend its own
network in the region and nationwide.
"We're hoping
that a combination of services from Chorus, Smartlinx3 and
other providers will help us deliver benefits to all our
residents," says Mayor Leggett.
ends
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