We last communicated to you in April about our programme to extend fibre coverage to 10,000 additional addresses across Aotearoa. Since then, we have made great progress and have the first eight build areas live with services now available at over 850 addresses. We’ve completed proactive ONT installs to nearly 400 of these with over 200 customers now enjoying fibre services.

As with any infrastructure programme, we have refined the programme as we have gone which has seen some areas being removed and some new areas added into the build programme. Learn more about the planned build areas to be released out until March 2025 with the balance of the programme to be complete by mid-2025.

For visibility, we have removed planned build in the following areas:

• Balclutha North, South Otago
• Lees Road, Kaiapoi, Canterbury
• Mahia Beach, Hawke’s Bay
• Little Bay, Coromandel
• Kaiata Industrial, West Coast

We are now planning additional build in two new areas – Fielding Fringe and Waikanae Fringe with three more to be announced in the coming months.

We will continue to provide updates to you as the build programme is ramping up and we deliver fibre to a further 9,000 addresses by mid-2025.  

Further information and contact

If you wish to receive lists of addresses of the new areas for targeting purposes or have any further queries relating to the build programme, please contact your Customer Engagement team.