Matt's Musings

September 8, 2006

$16m of Broadband Challenge Funding Announced

Filed under: WLUG / LinuxNZ — matt @ 12:17 pm NZST

David Cunliffe has just announced this morning that the Government has finally decided to approve 5 of the urban Broadband Challenge applications to build urban fibre networks.

Hamilton is one of the accepted proposals, getting $3.3m of government funding to help cover the start-up costs of the network. Under the conditions of the Broadband Challenge the networks must be open access and provide a full duplex transfer rate of at least 1Gbps.

Should be interesting to see how this develops!

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