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NZ second on web. 43m dollars for super-fast Internet

Internet World Stats, National

NZ Second Biggest Web User In World

A compilation of figures on Internet World Stats website shows 76.3 percent of NZers (about 3.2 million people) regularly use the Internet.

That's good enough for second place, just behind Malta, at 78.1 percent, and ahead of Iceland, Sweden and Denmark. Conversely, the country ranks near the bottom of the OECD (22nd out of 30) in high-speed Internet uptake.

Government Approves $43 Million for Super-fast Internet

www.morst.govt.nz/?CHANNEL=IT+INFRASTRUCTURE&PAGE=IT+Infrastructure.

This Advanced Network will connect NZ universities and research institutes through a fibre-optics network that is 400 times faster than domestic broadband.

The network will also provide a connection to international networks through links between NZ, Australia and the US.

The Network is expected to be up and running by the second half of this year, and it will allow:

• researchers to share computing power and high-cost instruments, as well as rapidly download huge quantities of data;
• real-time videoconferencing and video-streaming to deliver course material and lectures at a distance; and
• NZ scientists to link into international networks, for example engineers, geologists and geophysicists will be linked to the international Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation (NEESgrid).