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  A big day yesterday for broadband in New Zealand.       Broadband finally got to join its counterparts of water, gas and electricity as one of the basic services we count on... welcome to the utility club broadband.         I know what I'd rather go without!  Who needs gas anyhow!?      

  The first phase of the Hamilton fibre network actually completed back in January and with it, Hamilton became the sixteenth urban area to have Ultra Fast Fibre Broadband rolled out, but most importantly it was the largest urban area to date and it was completed six months AHEAD of schedule. Yesterday marked the official launch of the Waikato's ultra fast broadband rollout and ironically three of the four official speakers did not have access to fibre at their rural homes!  

  The Tauranga Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) network was completed on Friday 12th March 2016.  A monumental day for New Zealand fibre broadband and Tauranga is now the fifteenth urban area where the rollout of ultrafast fibre broadband is complete. Tauranga started rolling out ultra-fast broadband in August 2011 and the total investment in the fibre broadband network build exceeds $75 million so now that the network is all complete we are keen to introduce residents of Tauranga to the incredible benefits of ultrafast broadband with the best broadband packages for Tauranga which you can search on Broadband Compare.   

So... you've heard about this Ultrafast Fibre Broadband (UFB) network in New Zealand, right?  The one that will make your life better?  You have.  Excellent.  So why aren't you connected to it?! The internet is becoming more and more a part of our lives and the 'internet of things' means that you can improve your life in NZ with a fibre broadband connection.  It's strange for us at broadband compare to see so many Kiwis ignoring the benefits of changing their broadband connection to be a fibre broadband connection.  If you can have something better for the same price (or in some cases cheaper) then why would you not switch?  It really is puzzling that when people can get faster internet access at the same price or cheaper... in many cases they are choosing to ignore it.