Brad Ward, NZ Ministry of Economic Development, NZ Government Broadband and Demand

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NZ Government

Broadband and Demand


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UFB

RBI

Demand Role of Government

Schools Health


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UFBUF

B Objectives: Roll out UFB to 75% of the population by 2019. Focus in first 6 years on priority users (i.e. schools, health

services, businesses and green-field developments).

Construction of an open-access, wholesale only, network.

Co-investment by the private sector with Governmentcontribution of up to 1.35b.

Mechanisms for Delivery: CFH created as an investment vehicle for Crown funding.

The Governments partial funding of the network has allowedit to ensure it is designed in a way that promotes open accessand competition.


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UFB

Commercial progress so far: Two deals concluded Northpower and Ultra Fast Fibre. Prioritised negotiations with Telecom and a number of

regional players.

Regulatory Regime:The Telecommunications (TSO, Broadband and Other Matters)Amendment Bill is currently before Select Committee. Keyareas include:

Pricing of copper-based UBA and UCLL services.

Clarification of meaning of Equivalence of Inputs (EOI). Regulatory forbearance for UFB partners.

Commerce Act authorisations.


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RBIRBI Objectives:

The $300m RBI will, over the next six years: enable 97% of New Zealand households

and enterprises to access broadband

services of 5Mbps or better, with theremaining 3% to achieve speeds of atleast 1Mbps; and

connect 97% of schools to fibre, enabling

speeds of at least 100Mbps, with theremaining 3% to achieve speeds of atleast 10Mbps.


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RBI

An agreement with Telecom andVodafone was reached on the 20April 2011 for the RBI in zone 4.

This is a $285 million dollar deal. The construction work will be

completed over the next 6 years.

Access to high speed broadband to252,000 customers in rural NZ.


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Demand

Role of Government Role of Industry


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Schools

Internal Network Upgrade Fibre drop cost

Managed network

Teacher professional development


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HealthNational IT Health Plan vision by 2014:

New Zealanders will have a core set ofpersonal health information availableelectronically to them and their treatmentproviders regardless of the setting.

Opportunities enabled by faster broadband toachieve this vision include:

- E-prescriptions;

- Shared data repositories & patient adminsystems; and- Imaging

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