NZ has done the high speed fibre roll out really nicely - this includes small rural towns (1,600 people, 433 people from two rural areas near me) this is gigabit fibre. It costs about $95 NZD a month for 1000Mbps/500Mbps unlimited.
For those who are in the cities (like me), we have access to "hyperfibre" which is like 2Gbps which costs about $150-$200 NZD a month (unlimited).
NZ used to have expensive and slow internet (we don't have much TV cable here, so it was all ADSL), but it's gotten a lot better in the last few years. Currently I have 1000mbit down / 500mbit up fiber with unlimited data for $130nz/month (90usd).
The things you could do with 1.25gbps. Crazy stuff. Vastly different infrastructure/density situations but here in Australia I'm paying ~56USD per month for 0.04gbps up.
Was just about to say 'Meanwhile in Australia where I pay $79/month for 100GB of ~500kbps'. And I live in a relatively modern populated area, I shouldn't have to fight my neighbours for open ports!
Great to see that these projects are popping up all over --- I'm also in a town in the US with municipal fiber. I get bidirectional gigabit for $50/month (early adopter --- the normal rate is $100/month). Our ISP is also vocally pro-net neutrality.
This is not an issue at all anymore. Fibre coverage is very good, and almost all ISPs offer an unlimited plan. I pay $130NZD a month for unlimited 1gbps down / .5gbps up.
The United States bay be big, but it still has double the population density of New Zealand and yet New Zealand has high avaliability of cheap gigabit fibre.
I'm in New Zealand, a small island nation. I have 1gbps for around $70 USD per month. The install was free. I get a VoIP phone and Prime video subscription included.
Most of my devices are wireless so I really don't take advantage of the speed.
Yup. I have a gigabit fibre right up to my home, but the best speed available to me as an individual is 400/40. Gets really annoying from time to time when I need to upload like a couple of gigabytes.
On the bright side it's like €30/month, which also gets me cable and some streaming service subscriptions (HBO Max, Tidal, shit like that), which from what I can tell is a pretty good deal compared to more western countries.
New Zealand is currently in the process of rolling out fibre connections in almost every urban area of the country (target is 87% of households) and the amazing thing is that a basic fibre connection is now the same price as an ADSL/VDSL connection.
The government put together a technical specification (e.g. minimum speeds, networking standards, API for service providers) and set a series of coverage targets; then they solicited bids from the private sector to build and operate the network in each region. Funding was in the form of an interest-free loan, and the network operators are required to offer wholesale access to any retail provider. The operators are also prohibited from offering their own retail services.
So in the end, once the loans are paid back, the net cost to the taxpayer is likely going to be less than NZ$1.5bn -- that's gigabit fibre to the home for every non-rural household at a cost of less than NZ$1,000 each!
Canadian here. I also live in a city with municipal fibre. No fancy additional services like some others here, but I pay around US$20 per month for Gigabit symmetric internet. The major national ISPs start at around 4x higher.
I live in aus, we have as far as I can tell, uncapped fibre, 1000/50 is about 100usd a month give or take, anything with more upstream is extremely expensive though. The fibre infra has really come into fruition, I’m looking forward to (and expect to see) 10gbps plans at affordable rates in the next 5-10 years,
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