Tuatahi fibre buys Unison Fibre Taupo, Rotorua & Hawke’s bay network

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#310504 25-Oct-2023 21:20

I see that Tuatahi First Fibre is acquiring the Unison fibre network

https://www.tuatahifibre.co.nz/articles/tuatahi-first-fibre-to-acquire-unison-fibre

That will bring fibre competition to those Chorus areas and enable more RSPs to sell on the Unison network.

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#3153768 30-Oct-2023 17:15

It won't be quick; they will need to migrate from the Unison handovers to the TFF handovers. But then technically who connects to TFF can sell on the Unison footprint

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#3153778 30-Oct-2023 18:47

I don't understand the above comments, there's been nothing stopping any RSP from connecting to Unison previously.

Case in point: My home ISP is NOW, provided over Unison Fibre.

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#3153829 30-Oct-2023 22:36

muppet: I don't understand the above comments, there's been nothing stopping any RSP from connecting to Unison previously. Case in point: My home ISP is NOW, provided over Unison Fibre.

Sorry badly explained, not all RSPs have a handover with Unison, there is a list here:

Internet Service Providers (unison.co.nz)

Once TFF take over the RSPs that have a handover with TFF will also be able to supply on unison

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#3155689 4-Nov-2023 09:45

That assumes Tuatahi links the networks together.

Unison Hawkes Bay, Taupo and Rotorua are separate networks - Tuatahi would need to rent some other backhaul to link them. Because of this, unison didnt have a tail extension product.

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#3155718 4-Nov-2023 12:56

muppet: I don't understand the above comments, there's been nothing stopping any RSP from connecting to Unison previously.

Case in point: My home ISP is NOW, provided over Unison Fibre.

2degrees for example aren’t or weren’t able to connect to Unison ASIDs due to system restrictions (systems recently changed). With TFF picking up Unison Fibre, ASIDs will change and availability will open. Will also get TFF closer to being the biggest Fibre Wholesalers in NZ (First being Chorus)

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#3155806 4-Nov-2023 15:29

raytaylor:
That assumes Tuatahi links the networks together.

Unison Hawkes Bay, Taupo and Rotorua are separate networks - Tuatahi would need to rent some other backhaul to link them. Because of this, unison didnt have a tail extension product.

I understand this is the plan. So existing RSPs will be able to place Unison Fibre orders with the connection terminating on an existing TFF handover.