$60 million is allocated to improve broadband in under-served areas of the country.
Given how many New Zealand businesses are small and how many start up and carry on in rural areas, this may be a welcome leg up to frustrated business owners trying to grow online presence and streamline access to online services and software.
It’s long overdue. “Rural broadband is particularly critical to small businesses because it can enable major productivity improvements such as better access to information across supply chains.”
(Small and Medium Businesses in New Zealand, Report of the Small Business Development Group, 2016)
