global broadband futures: chorus

Global Broadband Futures 13 November 2017

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Premises to be passed by Chorus by Dec 2022

~1,054,000*

Customers able to connect by rollout end

~1.36 million

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40,000

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80,000

100,000

120,000

140,000

FY12 FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17 FY18 FY19 FY20 FY21 FY22 FY23

Chorus rollout schedule – indicative only*

UFB1 UFB2 & UFB2+

* UFB1 build ends Dec 2019 and UFB2 build ends Dec 2022. Detailed scheduling for UFB2 & UFB2+ to be completed by end 2017.

FIBRE EXTENDED TO 87% OF POPULATION

> The Government announced extensions to the UFB1 rollout in January and September 2017

▪ fibre to reach another ~12% of population across ~370 towns and rural communities

▪ Chorus has increased its share of these additional UFB phases

Premises passed

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NEW ZEALAND IS TAKING FIBRE FURTHER…

> From Auckland, New Zealand’s largest city

▪ population: 1.495m (2016)

> To Ahaura, in the South Island’s West Coast

▪ population: 370 (2013)

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60Mbps avg. connection

speed, doubled in 18

months

Data on the network has

doubled in 18 months

Fibre to the home

connections doubled in 18

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Growth

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145Mbps top speed on FTTn, double VDSL2 launch speed

50% more data on FTTn than

fibre network at peak hour

60,000 VDSL migrations in last 3 months

Growth

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MIGRATION CAPACITY

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CONNECTION SPEED

> With 53% of broadband connections now on VDSL or fibre, average broadband speed has increased from 33Mbps in Sept 16 to 60Mbps in Oct 17.

Q1 FY18 CONNECTIONS UPDATE

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CAPACITY

Chorus network traffic by time of day

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Screenshots from Ubiquiti Unifi Application

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Connection Speed vs. Data Usage

50Mbps25Mbps

100Mbps

1Gbps

ADSL2 VDSL2 FIBRE

200Mbps

Vodafone TVDisk-less Set Top Box and IR Remote

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Connection Speed vs. Data Usage – 90th percentile

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100Mbps

1Gbps

ADSL2 VDSL2 FIBRE

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PEAK HOUR – WHEN CONGESTION FREE REALLY COUNTS

> Peak hour data traffic is growing rapidly

▪ 51% increase in Chorus network traffic at ~9pm between June 2016 and June 2017

▪ TrueNet data shows fixed line broadband (fibre/VDSL/ADSL) delivers consistent performance at peak times

▪ wireless (mobile) networks share capacity, as evidenced by significant video buffering

Rural fixed wireless achieving <60% of median best speed at peak time

Chorus network traffic by time of day

Broadband technology comparison by time of day

Source: TrueNet Urban Broadband Report July 2017

Source: TrueNet Urban and Rural Broadband Reports June 2017

Total Links

May-17 Jun-17 Jul-17 Aug-17 Sep-17 Oct-17

0 - 10% 5,550 4,831 4,448 4,579 4,424 4,454

10 -20% 2,814 2,852 3,012 3,099 3,546 3,538

20 - 30% 1,260 1,243 1,425 1,396 1,655 1,703

30 - 40% 616 653 676 710 898 892

40 - 50% 378 394 420 381 471 490

50 - 60% 187 185 201 161 205 203

60 - 70% 87 73 87 55 73 73

70 - 80% 26 26 33 13 20 21

80 - 90% 6 4 9 4 5 5

90 - 100% 6 7 5 2 4 2

Congestion Free Modern Network

27Screenshots from askforbetter.co.nz and WiFi Sweetspotsapplication

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