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Chorus completes Greymouth UFB build

Chorus has today marked the completion of its Ultra-Fast Broadband(UFB) network in Greymouth, meaning more than 3900 households, businesses, schools and health facilities now have access to fibre.

Chorus today joined Economic Development Minister Steven Joyce and Grey District Mayor Tony Kokshoornfor an event in Greymouth to celebrate the completion of the project

Greymouth is the sixth town in New Zealand to have its fibre network completed under Chorus’ UFBprogramme.

“UFBhas the potential to transform New Zealand’s economy, our communities, and the way we connect to the rest of the world, so we’re really looking forward to seeing how the Greymouth community can best take advantage of having world-class connectivity right on their door step,” Chorus Executive Vanessa Oakley says.

“I firmly believe that the fibre network we are building today throughout New Zealand will be a visionary investment that future generations will thank us for.

“New Zealanders are already leading the world in their appetite for fibre. We have comfortably the fastest growth in the OECD, with more than 10 times the OECD average.

“And we’re already seeing Greymouth start to take advantage of this growing appetite. Businesses using fibre are experiencing seamless cloud computing, they’re sending large images and files, conducting meetings over smooth HD video conferencing and hosting multipleusers and devices, all on the same Internet connection.”

Chorus is building about 70 per cent of the UFBnetwork in a public-private partnership with the Government.

Chorus is about 45 per cent of the way through the rollout of the UFBnetwork, which is New Zealand’s largest ever communications project. All up, Chorus’ UFBnetwork will run past more than 830,000 homes, businesses, schools and health facilities throughout the country by the end of 2019.

Aswell asGreymouth, Chorus has also completed UFBbuild work in Oamaru, Ashburton, Blenheim, Timaru and Taupo.

Across New Zealand, fibre uptake remains strong, with more than 86,000 premisesnow connected to a fibre service in Chorus’ UFBareas.

ENDS

For further information:


Nathan Beaumont

Stakeholder Communications Manager

Mobile: 021 243 8412

Email:  Nathan.beaumont@chorus.co.nz

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