Wireless Technology in New Zealand With 3G Network
The New Zealand state-owned Kordia telecom company is considering upgrading its wireless technology and broadband service, which is mainly used by farmers, to 4G. Kordia missed out on the Rural Broadband Initiative earlier this year, which was a $285 million government contract to upgrade rural broadband.
They lost the contract to a joint bid from Vodafone and Telecom that proposed an expansion of fixed-line broadband and a wireless broadband solution based on 3G network that will be upgraded to low-frequency 4G in 2014 at the earliest. So Kordia has turned its attention to a $25 million rural wireless broadband network it built in 2003 called Extend, because it still has the option of upgrading that to a 4G system based on LTE technology using spectrum it owns in the 2.3GHz band.