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Rural Broadband Initiative

Caitlin Metz - 6 June 2014

The Government’s Rural Telecommunications Strategy

• Invest directly in rural communities to provide fast broadband

to rural users through government and industry contributions

• Phase 1 of RBI = $285 million
• Phase 2 of RBI = $15 million

Phase 1 Targets

• Chorus to provide ultra-fast broadband to 93 percent of rural schools.
• That is 848 rural schools. 800 have already been completed.
• Vodafone to provide broadband access to 80% of rural households.
• That is 240,000 rural houses
• 154 new towers and 387 upgraded existing rural towers

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Our solution for Rural New Zealand

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Fibre to schools

• c. 500 first year
• c. 750 in total

154 Towers 5Mbps over 3G LTE improves speed 2014/5 4,500km new road coverage DSL >5Mbps 57% >10Mbps 50% >20Mbps 34%

• c. 1,000 cabinets
• c. 3,100 km new
• pen-access fibre

Proposed Govt. RBI Coverage

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Vodafone Rural Broadband solution

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• External antenna for better

performance

• WiFi router delivers in-home
• broadband. Connectivity can

be wireless or by Ethernet cable

So what can we do with this stuff?

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• Wireless broadband for those without BB access or slow BB

access

• Retail competition for both broadband and mobile services
• Get connected – mobile calls, texts, mobile broadband

Soon your young people can be connected with access to services available in the “big smoke”

• Faster access to emergency services as well as possible civil

defence improvements – warning sirens

• Rural health services will be enhanced – remote access to

specialists, in home care through monitoring devices

• Tourism and business opportunities to be able to promote the area,

business, Iwi etc through social media

• Agribusiness opportunities such as the National Animal

Identification and Tracing initiative (NAIT)

• Access to clever applications such as Hika for learning Maori and

Fitness Pal for health and wellbeing

Vodafone RBI Progress

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• An estimated 192,500 households have access to wireless broadband
• 85 new sites are live and providing service with a total of 89 built
• 262 existing Vodafone sites are upgraded and providing service
• The programme is currently ahead of schedule for its contract end of year

build and sites integrated targets.

Actual Achieved to date Year 3 (of 5) Construction Period 6 June 2014 New Sites Leased 137 130 New Sites Consent Granted 120 125 New Sites Built 89 83 New Sites Live 85 74 Existing Site Upgrades 262 171

Technical Requirements

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Govt Engineering Design Standards

• At least 25 metres tall with the ability for a 5 metre mast

extension

• At least one head frame possibly two depending on co-

location requirements

• Ability to take 3 mobile operators and 3 wifi or wimax
• perators
• A fully loaded tower is likely to be 30 metres with 18 – 24

panel antennas on two head frames and with wifi equipment lower down

• Design life is 25 years

Other Information

• 100 m2 lease area to accommodate equipment cabinets –

10m x 10m

• Monopoles are approx 1.4m wide at the base
• Head frames are approx 5m wide

Careful Placement is Required

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• 164 nominal RBI masts targeted

with 154 to be built. All masts to be built to minimum height of 25 m to enable co-location.

• Region district plan rules reviewed

to check permitted mast size

• parameters. Wide variety of sizes

permitted makes nationwide rollout expensive and challenging.

• Antenna height is critical for the

effective operation of wireless

• networks. Lower antenna height

can lead to reduced coverage due to blocking from terrain, buildings, trees etc.

• Lower heights lead to more masts

being required, or bigger coverage

• holes. Small masts do not support

co-location, leading to more masts.

Rural Mast Heights a Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) Case Study

Rural Mast Heights Suggestions for Consistency

• Solutions for greater national

consistency could include councils using template proposed plan utility sections (utilities are fundamentally the same nationwide) or a possible National Environmental Standard.

• Local exclusions for areas of high

visual value provided for by landscape and scenic overlays.

• Greater national uniformity in rural

areas of a permitted mast height

• f 25 m would foster future

investment in rural NZ by providing consistency.

Things we have learned along the way

• We focused on working closely with

Councils

• This has been supported by robust

engagement with Iwi and hāpu, nearby residents and wider community consultation if required

• Good relationships had to be developed

with power companies

• RBI has shown the value of central govt,

local govt and private co’s working together to benefit NZ

Vodafone RBI Deployment

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25M Monopole Paparoa Northland 25M Monopole Baylys Beach, Northland

Puketaha- Waikato

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Guess where?

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RBI websites

mbie.govt.nz/rural-broadband chorus.co.nz/rural-broadband vodafone.co.nz/rural-broadband

Representing Vodafone today

Caitlin Metz Community Relations caitlin.metz@vodafone.com phone 0800 10 17 10

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