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Rural Broadband additional copper service upgrades

We are pleased to announce that we have been awarded further funding under the Government’s Rural Connectivity Upgrade (RCU) programme. This funding will upgrade the broadband service of an additional 40 rural cabinets to VDSL high speed copper broadband. The upgrade will benefit the 3,350 customers served by these cabinets. Work is underway with completion due by the end of 2024. 

Timing is subject to resource availability and some sites require local authority and/or iwi approval. As each cabinet upgrade is complete our coverage maps and order portals will be updated to show increased VDSL coverage. 

All connections served by the cabinets will receive some improvement in access speed and stability, with the change from ADSL to VDSL. The connection between the cabinet and the Chorus and RSP network will also be improved. 

Actual individual improvement will depend on the customer’s distance from the cabinet and may require a change in the customer’s modem.

 

Upgraded cabinets 

Chorus Cabinets District 
ALY/01 Auckland Region 
ALY/03 Auckland Region 
BV/AC Hawkes’s Bay Region 
BV/N Hawkes’s Bay Region 
EGV/A Taranaki Region 
FC/AQ Manawatu-Wanganui Region 
GG/M Southland Region 
HL/02 Auckland Region 
HR/01 Auckland Region 
HR/02 Auckland Region 
HVN/H Hawkes’s Bay Region 
ID/G Taranaki Region 
KEN/01 Southland Region 
KI/AH Canterbury Region 
KPA/04 Auckland Region 
MID/S11 Taranaki Region 
MKW/C Southland Region 
ML/W Manawatu-Wanganui Region 
MTK/01 Auckland Region 
OKI/S11 Taranaki Region 
OKN/C Manawatu-Wanganui Region 
PIA/B Auckland Region 
PIA/E Auckland Region 
PUK/S01 Auckland Region 
ROI/A Bay of Plenty Region 
SKH/01 Auckland Region 
TAK/01 Tasman Region 
TAK/02 Tasman Region 
TBY/AB Auckland Region 
TDL/01 Hawkes’s Bay Region 
TDL/AV Hawkes’s Bay Region 
TPO/CR Waikato Region 
TUA/B Manawatu-Wanganui Region 
WAK/D Auckland Region 
WAK/H Auckland Region 
WHD/S01 Auckland Region 
WKU/C Auckland Region 
WP/D West Coast Region 
WT/E Taranaki Region 
WY/01 Hawkes’s Bay Region 
Total 40 

 

Contact 

If you have any queries, please get in touch with your account team.