I'm often asked what will get New Zealanders to move from
copper broadband to the UFB fibre network.
Or as we used
to say in the 1990s: "What is the UFB killer app"?
Video
is the simple answer, but it's not the whole answer. We've
been using tools such as Facetime and Skype with some
success since the early days of ADSL. And it works well over
my copper VDSL connection.
Fibre improves the video
experience mainly because it is faster.
And that's the
real killer app: Speed. Faster broadband means you can do
things that were either marginal or flaky with copper
connections.
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