Five-hundred new mobile cell towers around rural New Zealand are in the works with the second phase of the Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI2) which is now well underway. The five-year programme will increase the country’s mobile land coverage by 25% and is set for completion in 2023. When the build programme is finished, 33,000 more rural Kiwi households and businesses will be able to access mobile services offered by New Zealand’s three mobile network operators – Spark, Vodafone and 2degrees – for the very first time.
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