The installation of Ultra-Fast Broadband in Tauranga is now 90 per cent complete.
More than 45,300 homes, schools and businesses in Tauranga now have access to fibre-to-the-premises under the Government's Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) programme, Communications Minister Amy Adams said today.
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The figures come from results of phase one of the programme as of June 30, 2015.
By 2019, 75 per cent of New Zealanders are expected to have access to fibre under the first phase.