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BayCity Extends Rural Community Broadband Offering8 December 2005
BayCity Extends Rural Community Broadband Offering Through
WBS
BayCity New Zealand has signed a new Wholesale
Broadband Solution (WBS) agreement with Telecom to extend
the broadband services it offers to rural New
Zealand.
Telecom Wholesale launched WBS in September with
14 new plans, which enable ISPs to access the Internet via
Telecom’s Global Gateway Internet Service. BayCity is the
17th service provider to sign up for WBS.
BayCity Managing
Director Barry Payne said the signing of the WBS agreement
would support the launch of BayCity’s new broadband package
Farmside Community Broadband, developed to meet the needs of
rural communities.
“We understand that for people living
in rural or remote areas, being connected to their community
is very important - and many farmers are still looking for
tangible ways they can benefit from broadband,” Mr Payne
said.
“By packaging the Farmside service with useful
content such as links, free software, applications, and
community directories accessed by a community portal, we’ve
bridged that gap.”
Telecom Head of Wholesale Marketing
Chris Dyhrberg welcomed the agreement.
“We look forward to
working closely with BayCity to ensure that they get the
best out of these plans,” Mr Dyhrberg said.
“We offer WBS
as it is important to Telecom to offer a range of broadband
products into the wholesale market – to suit the range of
ISPs that are operating in the market.
“Customers on WBS
services will only have a relationship with their ISP. We
believe this is a better experience for the customer than
being on a resale plan, where the internet access is with
Telecom and the ISP services with the ISP.”
“The initial
WBS offering is the first in what will become a suite of
wholesale broadband services that will offer a range of add
on features for service providers”, Mr Dyhrberg
said.
BayCity and Telecom have undertaken a number of
joint projects together in recent years. These include
selling Telecom 027 mobiles and broadband direct to rural
New Zealand, and developing remote monitoring systems to
provide farmers with real-time information on their
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