Crown Fibre Holdings stories

Enable, Christchurch's fibre broadband provider, has now connected its 100,000th customer to its network, doubling the number of households and businesses connected to ultra-fast fibre broadband in less than two years.More

This means that over 200,000 homes and businesses will be able to access fibre.More

“New Zealand is leading the world on its fibre roll out and fibre growth."More

“The agreement is a pragmatic solution and has been agreed without further funding from CFH."More

“Fibre is going to enable White Island to grow, and with White Island growing our businesses will grow.”More

“You can’t beat the speed and the improvement in latency and efficiency that you get with it."More

"The nature of our business, working with companies who are operating offshore means we need massive speed, massive connection."More

“If your business relies on the internet at all, and you’ve got fibre on the street, you’d be silly not to take it up.”More

"Prior to UFB, the Whanganui office & Ohakune office were on standard broadband. We're now on 100Mb/second download and 50Mb/second upload."More

"Since having fibre put in, we've started to walk, run and now we're galloping."More

“It’s allowed us to build a single managed wide area network for the business."More

"Chorus has had three years warning of the inevitable fall in copper prices."More

"The Government’s priority is to ensure the UFB roll out programme stays on track and this agreement helps ensures that the build programme will not be disrupted."More

Conditional gives Chorus the option to bring forward part of CFH’s existing investment funding earlier in the build of the ultra-fast broadband (UFB) network.More

New Zealand Government’s Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) policy is to accelerate the rollout of ultra-fast broadband to 75% of Kiwis by the end of 2019...More

Enable, the Crown Fibre Holdings Ltd and Christchurch City Holdings Ltd joint venture fibre company, has begun to transform the way people in Canterbury do business and connect with each other with the launch of its wholesale UFB servicesMore

New ICT minister Amy Adams has been handed the opportunity to stamp out perceived government empire building.More

As Curran gets a dressing down for dressing down, Joyce dismisses her rural schools broadband "conspiracy"More

The government has reached agreements with Telecom New Zealand and Christchurch ratepayer-owned Enable Networks to roll out the UFB network. More

Chairs for North Island Local Fibre Company and Northpower Fibre have been named by Crown Fibre Holdings.More

One company's recipe for making fibre-to-the-home available on tap involves blowing cables down consumers' water pipes.More

Steven Joyce rejects industry outrage over the regulatory holiday provisions of the Telco Amendment Bill, accusing his critics of "jumping at shadows".More

The New Zealand Herald has obtained a "price book" that reveals wholesale charges set by Crown Fibre Holdings.More

Another fibre consortium makes it to the negotiating table but the fate of the ultra-fast broadband initiative remains uncertain.More