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How Chorus built our $5.5B world-class fibre network

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Mark Aue, CEO at Chorus, tells us how a Spark spin-off became NZ's largest telecommunications infrastructure company, putting New Zealand 17th globally in fibre uptake—ahead of Australia and the UK.

Chorus has spent $5.5 billion building a national fibre network to become the country’s definitive network operator and Deloitte projects that their network could pump $33 billion annually into New Zealand's economy by 2033. But challenges remain: Mark shares how Chorus is pushing to expand coverage to the last 13% of the population and managing the complex exit from legacy copper networks. Plus, the fight against digital inequality, with one in five New Zealanders still digitally excluded.

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