Hi all,

I live now in Alexandra Central Otago and recently one of the local newspapers had an article on this new spending and extension of the original UFB by the NZ Government....our council has jumped at getting this installed here in Central Otago and in particular Alexandra as far as I am concerned

So I figured I would start a topic and get some updates from around the country etc...

I have found the ROI document  here

http://www.med.govt.nz/sectors-industries/technology-communication/fast-broadband/pdf-and-documents-library/new-initiatives/roi-supply.pdf

and it looks like the Government plans to be setting up the install contracts in December this year.... Towns like Alexandra here have to get chosen/selected in mid Oct- mid Nov 2015 so quite quickly

Our Council is having its first public meeting on Wednesday 01 April in the local Community Centre... see  

http://www.codc.govt.nz/your-council/news/Pages/Digital-Forum.aspx

I missed out on getting UFB back up in Tuakau and now hope to be able to get it here especially as I have a free install from Spark as part of the contract when we moved here last year as our phone/internet provider...

FYI Ive checked and cant find an existing topic for this..

It would be interesting to see where else councils are etting on board etc...

Regards

Laurie