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The new communications mast will provide high-speed rural broadband coverage for Ahuroa.
Ahuroa residents will be able to access high-speed wireless internet following the construction of a new communications tower along West Coast Road.The tower is the first in Rodney to be built under the Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI), a partnership between the Government and Chorus. The project will bring faster, more reliable wireless broadband and mobile coverage to rural areas.
The new communications tower will reach around 600 homes and businesses.
Communications Minister Amy Adams says faster broadband will bring economic and social benefits to the Ahuroa area.
“Better coverage where you are means better business tools, more ways to connect with customers and suppliers, new technologies for precision agriculture to explore, as well as more incentives for young people to stay in the area,” Mrs Adams says.
Vodafone technology director Tony Baird says wireless broadband will enable the rural residents to have connection speeds as fast or faster than town broadband.
“We’re continually investing so our rural customers gain access to the same benefits as those living in urban areas, and have done so since the Rural Broadband Initiative began,” Tony said.
The RBI aims to have connected more than 90 per cent of rural New Zealand by the end of the year.
