Spark will use UnisonFibre to connect new customers to Spark fibre broadband, in areas covered by the UnisonFibre network. UnisonFibre has an extensive fibre network, with more than 700kms of cabling reaching nearly 13,000 homes and businesses across the Hawke’s Bay region and Taupo and Rotorua and offers fibre network capabilities equivalent to those available via the Ultra-Fast Broadband network in other parts of New Zealand.
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Ultra-fast broadband rolls out to more Waikato towns and fringes
Ultra-fast broadband is being extended to 25 more towns in the Waikato, Communications Minister Simon Bridges announced on Thursday. It’s part of Prime Minister Bill English and Minister Bridges’ launch of the second, $300m phase of the Government’s UFB programme.
Rescue beacon alerts top 450
A woman climber sustaining severe head injuries on Christmas Day, and a motor boat stuck on a sandbar off Foxton Beach, were among the more than 450 rescue beacon incidents for 2016. The Rescue Coordination Centre of New Zealand received 146 beacon alerts north of Taupo last year, and 107 in the lower half of the North Island.