Closing Taranaki's Digital Divide PrimoWireless Mixes Fibre and Wireless

Fibre is making Taranaki’s rural wireless internet service run much better. It can reach deeper into rural areas it couldn’t get to before.

Regional wireless internet service provider PrimoWireless has used fibre for four or five years now, to improve internet speeds and reliability for its rural customers. Fibre also extends its network into those deep rural pockets even satellite can’t reach.

PrimoWireless’ managing director, Matthew Harrison, says fibre is proving particularly valuable to those at the furthest-most points of its network. “Some of those farms can’t even get satellite because the hill country is too steep. They were stuck on dial-up and they used to wait a whole day for an email,” he says.

Taranaki was one of the first regions to have fibre installed as part of the UFB initiative. The aim is to deliver the kind of fast telecoms service city people take for granted to rural New Zealand.

UFB fibre has helped transform communications in rural Taranaki, says Harrison.

Read the full article here: Closing Taranaki Digital Divide PrimoWireless Mixes Fibre and Wireless

Source: The Download

NZ’s most remote residents connected by pioneer mini web providers

PrimoWireless and our Top Dog Matt Harrison, feature in this Seven Sharp piece on how WISPA internet companies are providing wireless internet for isolated rural Kiwis.

Watch the video story here: NZ’s most remote residents connected by pioneer mini web providers

Source: TVNZ

PrimoWireless provides broadband to Tutaki Youth Inc

"We have always valued the local support we receive and we like to look for ways in which we can support our local communities in return."

Kelly Ellis of PrimoWireless says the team at PrimoWireless are thrilled to be able to support Tutaki Youth Inc by providing them with their broadband connection and service.

Ellen Hall, general manager at Tutaki Youth Inc, says the partnership with PrimoWireless has already made a difference.

"We immediately noticed a difference in work flow and connectivity as they resolved the issues we had with blackspots in the building immediately. Now, wherever in the building someone is working, they have a seamless connection to the internet."

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Source: Stratford Press Business News

Free Wifi at the Hospital! MoreFM talks with Matt Harrison from PrimoWireless

Ken and Anna from MoreFM Taranaki 93.2, interview Owner/Director of PrimoWireless, Matthew Harrison about providing free wifi to the New Plymouth Base Hospital and Hawera Hospital.

Listen to the interview here

Local entrepreneur donates wifi to hospital - Radio Interview

Taranaki Base Hospital now has free wifi thanks to PrimoWireless founder Matthew Harrison.

He was sick in hospital and found he had chewed through a lot of data and thought about how to help other patients stay connected.

Harrison told Larry Williams a lot of DHBs have got wifi which they pay for themselves.

LISTEN HERE AS MATTHEW HARRISON SPEAKS WITH LARRY WILLIAMS