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• Amazon plans to launch over 3,000 satellites to offer broadband internet

  ​Amazon.com has confirmed its plan to build a network of over 3,000 satellites through "Project Kuiper" to provide high speed internet

• New Zealand’s Chorus to trial 10 gig services for homes, businesses

  New Zealand network operator Chorus says that in mid-March it will launch a trial of a new broadband service offering speeds of up to 10 gigabits per second.

• Chorus boost broadband bandwidth with VDSL2 vectoring

  Nokia says Chorus has deployed Nokia VDSL2 vectoring technology in its copper broadband access network enabling it to provide broadband speeds up to 130Mbps to residential and business customers.

• Survey highlights high cost of old broadband contracts

  Comparison service NZ Compare says its survey of New Zealand broadband users suggests over a third of Kiwis have been with their current broadband provider for over three years and could be paying up to $400 above current rates, because the price and quality of broadband connections have changed extensively.

• Chorus UFB connections surge

  Chorus has reported a 45 per cent increase in the number of fibre broadband connections in the three months to 30 June, taking the total to 433,000, exceeding the number of ADSL connections for the first time.

• Commerce Commission ramps up new broadband testing regime

  The Commerce Commission has published a paper on broadband performance testing ahead of the first round of information on consumer broadband service performance being released by UK based broadband performance tester, SamKnows.

• Spark claims success with copper broadband migration campaign

  Spark claims its campaign to shift customers from copper broadband services onto fibre or fixed wireless is paying off, with 50 percent of its total broadband customer base now on fibre (34 percent) or wireless (16 percent), delivered using is cellular network.

• Vocus-Vodafone joint venture to unbundle UFB services

  Vocus Group and Vodafone NZ have formed a joint venture to offer unbundled wholesale services on the Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) fibre network, in competition with Chorus and other local fibre companies (LFCs).

• ComCom appoints UK provider to monitor NZ broadband

  The Commerce Commission is re-launching its broadband monitoring programme with a new overseas supplier and is looking for 3000 New Zealand households to take part.

• Full speed ahead for NZ’s rural broadband rollout

  The schedule for completing New Zealand's rural broadband programmes has been brought forward a year, and is now due for completion in 2021, communications minister Clare Curran has announced.

• NZ broadband market at a juncture

  He had only been in the top job a couple of months, but when Spark (then Telecom) CEO Simon Moutter declared that unlimited broadband was a crazy idea he, along with most of the industry, was still operating in a pre-fibre world.

• Vodafone cops Commerce Commission action over FibreX advertising

  The Commerce Commission has accused Vodafone of misrepresenting its FibreX broadband service, which is delivered over a hybrid fibre coax network, as being delivered over the Ultra Fast Broadband fibre to the home network. Vodafone has refuted the accusations.

• UFB ahead of plan, says Curran

  The Government has released its latest quarterly broadband update saying it shows delivery of ultra-fast broadband services to be ahead of plan with the service how available to 1.25 million households and businesses.

• Spark fixed wireless broadband garners 100,000 customers

  Spark says it now has 100,000 customers on its fixed wireless broadband service, launched in April 2016 and delivered using its cellular network.

• Vodafone revamps fixed broadband plans

  Vodafone has introduced a new range of home broadband plans that include 24/7 support and the ability to use the Vodafone mobile network if the fixed line broadband service fails.