Over 15 percent of Rolleston homes and businesses have made the switch to fibre broadband in less than six months since Enable launched its network in the town. Enable has received almost 600 orders for fibre broadband from the town at almost three times the national uptake rate.

“We announced Rolleston as New Zealand’s first fully fibred town in October last year and this community has embraced fibre broadband like no other,” said Enable CEO Steve Fuller.

Enable is providing its fibre broadband services across all of Rolleston’s existing urban areas and into all new subdivisions in the town.

“We know almost all homes in new subdivisions will connect to a fibre broadband service. What we’ve been astonished by is how quickly Rolleston residents in established suburbs have made the move,” said Mr Fuller.

“The sky really is the limit for Rolleston now – we could be looking at a town with 40 or 50 percent uptake in just a couple of years. This would represent globally significant uptake levels and position Rolleston as the perfect testing ground for retail service and content providers to trial exciting new services that require fibre.”

 Mr Fuller puts the uptake down to word of mouth within the community creating a better understanding of the benefits of fibre broadband.

“Once neighbours and friends across a community start sharing how much better their broadband experience is and that there is usually no additional cost, people switch to fibre broadband quickly.”

The cost of installation of fibre broadband at home is covered by Enable and people usually get a much faster, more reliable internet experience for about the same or even less than they are paying today for broadband and telephone services.  

Residential customers can move to a fibre broadband service simply by contacting Orcon, Snap, Telecom or WorldxChange. Business customers have even more choice of retail service provider and should visit enable.net.nz to select one.