This new super-fast internet service for business customers will be big news for some small businesses (but, sadly, only if you’re in the centre of a city and a TelstraClear customer!).
TelstraClear has just introduced an internet service (using VDSL2 technology) with download speeds of up to 30 megabits per second, several times faster than normal broadband services.
It is available in the CBDs of Auckland, Hamilton, Tauranga, Napier, New Plymouth, Wanganui, Lower Hutt and Wellington; and should be available on the North Shore and in Waitakere, Manukau, Palmerston North, Christchurch and Dunedin before Christmas.
It costs $400 a month, plus data charges. TelstraClear also has significantly cheaper but slower plans. Telecom also offers a faster broadband service – ADSL2. But it is nowhere as fast as VDSL2 and is available mainly in the larger city centres. Telecom’s cheapest regular (ADSL) broadband plan, which gives most users speeds of between 1.5 and 4 megabits per second, costs $30 a month.
Vodafone and Orcon have both said they have been trialling VDSL2 technology.
Meanwhile, the political parties wonder how to get fast, affordable broadband for all: the only real consensus so far being that it is unlikely to be delivered any time soon by Telecom.
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