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March 18 2015
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Broadband upgrade for Kirwee by Kent Caddick
Kirwee broadband campaigner Chris Clayton can finally tell his six-year-old daughter Sophie, that ‘Daddy’s fixed the internet’. Young Sophie Clayton is among the Kirwee residents celebrating the news that lines company Chorus has agreed to upgrade its Kirwee exchange to enable locals to receive improved broadband coverage and speeds. Chris Clayton has been at the forefront of residents and local businesses pushing for the upgrade due to the failure of the current system to provide adequate broadband to the growing Selwyn township. Clayton who has been campaigning for the upgrade for around six months said he is excited at the news Chorus is to upgrade the Kirwee exchange. “It is a shame it has taken this long to get something done but I’m pretty excited the long hard slog has finally paid off,” Clayton said. “We will no longer have the slowdowns residents and businesses have faced most afternoons and evenings when internet usage is at its peak. “We have been lobbying council, central Government, the community board and internet service providers to get something done but the answer was always the same, ‘it’s not our equipment it is up to Chorus’.” Clayton said it wasn’t a one-man campaign to get the upgrade and a number of businesses along with many residents who lobbied for the upgrade through the Government’s broadband upgrade website can take credit for Chorus’s decision to upgrade the exchange. “I guess one of the reasons I got
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involved was because my six-year-old daughter Sophie kept telling me ‘the internet sucks’ and now I can finally tell her Daddy’s fixed the internet.” Chorus hopes to have the Kirwee upgrade completed by June. Chorus Infrastructure general manager Ed Beattie said once the work is finished more reliable and consistent broadband speeds will provide faster upload speeds for photographs and images, faster download speeds for music and movies, and better, clearer video conversations with friends and family.
“Better broadband will also help rural businesses connect easily to the world and run applications from cloudbased services, reducing IT costs and improving business resilience. “In practical terms for rural businesses, such as farms, this will mean better connection to services like livestock improvement records and markets overseas, as well as improving time management through online purchasing. Technology plays a big part in modern farming and now residents in Kirwee will be able to be part of that. continued on page 4 …
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