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Hundreds of schools to benefit from broadband

Budget 2012 continues the Government’s commitment to making New Zealand schools among the most connected in the world, Education Minister Hekia Parata and Communications and Information Technology Minister Amy Adams say.

The Government is providing $8 million in 2012/13 to help schools connect to the ultra-fast broadband (UFB) network.

Hundreds of schools will have access to government funding to cover the costs of the fibre connection from the school boundary into the school.

  • Amy Adams
  • Hekia Parata
  • Budget 2012
  • Communications and Information Technology
  • Education

Remote and provincial schools to get faster broadband

Work will begin to connect all of New Zealand’s remaining schools, including our most remote, to faster broadband, Education Minister Hekia Parata and Communications and Information Technology Minister Amy Adams announced today.

Ms Parata says 57 remote schools and 193 provincial schools are included in the latest Rural Broadband Initiative contracts.

The remote schools, which includes schools in Haast, Stewart Island and Great Barrier Island, will receive faster broadband (10Mbps or more) using point to point wireless technology.

  • Amy Adams
  • Hekia Parata
  • Education
  • Communications and Information Technology

More schools to benefit from UFB

The roll out of ultra-fast broadband to more schools in Hamilton, Tauranga, New Plymouth and Whanganui will see thousands more students able to be connected to the network by July, Education Minister Hekia Parata and Communications and Information Technology Minister Amy Adams say.

Ultrafast Fibre, one of the Government’s four UFB partners, today announced the next 23 schools in these regions that will be able to connect to the network by July this year.

These schools are in addition to another nine that were deployed by Ultrafast Fibre in January.

  • Amy Adams
  • Hekia Parata
  • Communications and Information Technology
  • Education

UFB to be rolled out to hundreds more schools

More than 410,000 students at over 1500 schools will have access to ultra-fast broadband by July next year, says Education Minister Hekia Parata and Communications and IT Minister Amy Adams.

Prime Minister John Key today announced the next 693 schools to be connected by Chorus, one of the Crown’s four partners for the ultra-fast broadband initiative and the fibre provider for the rural broadband initiative.

It includes schools in Invercargill, Dunedin, Timaru, Greymouth, Nelson, Gisborne, Whakatane, Auckland, and many other areas.

  • Amy Adams
  • Hekia Parata
  • Education
  • Communications and Information Technology