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Speaker 1: The average Kiwi home uses twice as much data a

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Speaker 1: month as the average Australian home, with sport and gaming

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Speaker 1: driving our biggest traffic spikes. According to Chorus, one of

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Speaker 1: the seventeen biggest spikes this year of the seventeen, I

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Speaker 1: should say, fourteen were driven by updates to the video

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Speaker 1: game Fortnite. Other spikes came from the Mike Tyson Jake

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Speaker 1: Paul fight and the All Blacks game against Japan. Chorus

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Speaker 1: network strategy manager Kurt Rodgers is with me. Good evening,

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Speaker 1: Hey Ryan, how are you good? Thank you, Good to

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Speaker 1: have you in the studio. First of all, why do

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Speaker 1: we use more, so much more than the Aussies.

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Speaker 2: Well, a lot of it's to do with better infrastructure

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Speaker 2: here in New Zealand. So you know, we've rolled out

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Speaker 2: a lot of fiber, and fiber is really the key

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Speaker 2: to having good quality broadband at home. The Australians have

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Speaker 2: taken a different path, so they've got multiple technologies, particularly

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Speaker 2: a lot of copper and a lot of wireless technology

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Speaker 2: and it just puts a bit of a constraint. Doesn't

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Speaker 2: have the same capacity as we have in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: So really a bit of that's about the infrastructure.

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Speaker 1: So ours is easier, quicker, faster, therefore we use more of.

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Speaker 2: It, no constraints, right, yeah, all.

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Speaker 1: Right, so what about the spikes? How do we manage those?

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Speaker 1: Does it result in cutouts, network cutouts, et cetera.

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Speaker 2: Well no, And that's the great thing about fiber infrastructure.

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Speaker 2: It's a bit like having a digital highway that's got

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Speaker 2: lots and lots of lanes to add. So when things

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Speaker 2: do happen like live sports streaming, game downloads and in

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Speaker 2: various things happening in busy time, the fiber network is

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Speaker 2: able to just expand and handle all of that without

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Speaker 2: really any impact on your experience.

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Speaker 1: What's up with Wykaso, particularly Topiiti and well it was

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Speaker 1: everywhere in Wyko to accept Hamilton, from what I could see,

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Speaker 1: had the largest consumption of anywhere in New Zealm.

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Speaker 2: Yeah's an interesting thing is, look, there's a couple of

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Speaker 2: things going on there. So there's a demographic thing that

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Speaker 2: plays out that younger generation and also Maldi and Pacific

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Speaker 2: and Asian communities much more online and a much more

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Speaker 2: engaged in entertainment and online media, and got these demographic

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Speaker 2: issues that play out in places like South Orton and Waikato.

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Speaker 2: But the other specific thing to Waikato is we've been

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Speaker 2: building a lot of new subdivisions and a lot of expansion.

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Speaker 2: You know, it's part of the Golden Triangle, a huge

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Speaker 2: population growth, and we suspect there's quite a few people

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Speaker 2: who work in the city but are choosing to work

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Speaker 2: for them that makes sense in these new places, and

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Speaker 2: that's what we think is particularly driving.

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Speaker 1: How much is too much? I mean, we're using thirteen

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Speaker 1: times more data today than we were ten years ago.

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Speaker 1: We at some point going to each saturation point.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think it's just going to keep going, right,

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Speaker 2: I mean, there's always new things around the corner that

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Speaker 2: people are wanting to do. As you know, more and

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Speaker 2: more things that we do offline are moved online, and

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Speaker 2: as new technologies come along. I mean, who knows what

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Speaker 2: virtual reality or artificial intelligence is going to bring to us.

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Speaker 2: So we're thinking it's going to keep going and keep growing.

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Speaker 1: Are the kids in Australia who aren't using as much

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Speaker 1: data as we are here in New Zealand better off mentally?

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Speaker 2: Well, I don't know. We'll have to talk. We'll have

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Speaker 2: to ask some parents over there, but they're probably just

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Speaker 2: a bit more frustrated that the Fortnite game takes a

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Speaker 2: lot longer to downloads.

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Speaker 1: All right, thanks very much for coming on that is chorus.

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Speaker 1: Kurt Rogers with us for more from Hither Duplessy Allen Drive.

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