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New Zealand - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

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New Zealand - Telecoms, Mobile and Broadband - Statistics and Analyses

New Zealand to benefit from Google’s Topaz subsea cable

New Zealand’s telecom market continues to be buttressed by the mobile broadband and fibre sectors. Almost a quarter of fixed broadband subscribers now take a gigabit service, which is testament to the robust nature of the supporting infrastructure.

This infrastructure has been buttressed by the country’s excellent subsea cable connectivity, which includes the Tasman Global Access Cable linking Auckland and Sydney (providing an alternative path for traffic carried by the Tasman-2 and Southern Cross cables). The company SCCN has also initiated work on the Southern Cross NEXT cable, running between Sydney, Auckland, and Los Angeles. The 12,250km system is scheduled for completion by mid-2022, and has a design capacity of 72Tb/s.

In mid-2018 the cable developer Hawaiki completed its cable linking Australia, New Zealand, and Hawaii to the US west coast at Oregon. More recently, Google has started laying the 240Tb/s Topaz cable, which will link Canada (at Vancouver) with Honolulu, Sydney, and Auckland. In addition, the Chilean company Desarrollo Pais in January 2022 contracted H2 to build the 14,810km Humboldt cable connecting Valparaiso (Chile) to Auckland and Sydney. This cable is expected to be lit in early 2025.


  • Executive Summary
  • Key statistics
    • Table Top Level Country Statistics and Telco Authorities – New Zealand – 2022 (e)
  • Telecommunications market
    • MARKET ANALYSIS
      • Table Development of telecom sector revenue – 2012 – 2021
      • Table Development of telecom investment by sector (NZ$ million) –2012 – 2021
      • Table Change in the number of subscribers by sector (million) –2012 – 2021
  • Regulatory environment
    • FIXED-LINE DEVELOPMENTS
      • UBA, UCLL, LLU and UBS access market developments
      • Minor changes post Spark and Chorus demerger
      • Telecommunications Service Obligations (TSO)
      • Telecommunications Development Levy
        • Table Annual cost of TDL – 2012 – 2021
      • Telecommunications Relay Service (TRS)
      • Telecommunications Dispute Resolution (TDR)
      • Local and Mobile Number Portability (LMNP)
    • MOBILE NETWORK DEVELOPMENTS
      • Spectrum
      • Spectrum auctions
      • Management Rights Regime
      • Mobile Termination Access Services (MTAS)
      • Mobile Termination Rates (MTRs)
      • Mobile Number Portability (MNP)
  • Mobile market
    • MOBILE STATISTICS
      • Table Development of mobile market revenue – 2012 – 2021
      • Mobile voice
        • Table Change in mobile voice traffic – 2012 – 2021
        • Table Mobile voice traffic use per connection – 2012 – 2021
        • Table Growth in the number of mobile subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
        • Table Market share of mobile subscribers per operator – 2012 – 2021
        • Table Annual change in mobile subscribers per major operator – 2012 – 2020
      • Mobile data
        • Table Decline of SMS traffic – 2012 – 2021
      • Mobile broadband
        • Table Growth in the number of active mobile broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
        • Table Mobile data use per connection – 2012 – 2021
    • MOBILE INFRASTRUCTURE
      • 5G
      • 4G (LTE)
      • Other infrastructure developments
    • MAJOR MOBILE OPERATORS
      • Spark Mobile
        • Table Development of Spark’s mobile service revenue – 2012 – 2022
        • Table Development of Spark’s capex (NZ$ million) –2012 – 2022
        • Table Growth in the number of Spark’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2021
        • Table Development of Spark Mobile’s ARPU (NZ$ / month) –2012 – 2021
        • Table Change in the proportion of Spark’s prepaid and postpaid subscribers – 2012 – 2021
      • Vodafone New Zealand
        • Table Change in the number of Vodafone’s mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2019
        • Table Development of Vodafone New Zealand’s financial data (NZ$ million) –2012 – 2022
        • Table Development of Vodafone New Zealand’s revenue by type (NZ$ million) –2020 – 2022
        • Table Change in Vodafone New Zealand’s cash investment – 2015 – 2022
      • 2degrees Mobile
        • Table Growth in the number of 2degrees’ mobile subscribers – 2012 – 2021
        • Table Change in the proportion of 2degrees prepaid and postpaid subscribers – 2012 – 2021
        • Table 2degrees key financial data (US$ million) –2017 – 2021
      • Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
        • Table Vocus mobile subscribers – 2017 – 2021
    • MOBILE CONTENT AND APPLICATIONS
      • Mobile banking and payments
      • Internet of Things (IoT)
      • Mobile applications
  • Fixed-line broadband market
    • INTRODUCTION AND STATISTICAL OVERVIEW
      • Market analysis
      • Wholesale pricing
      • Broadband statistics
        • Table Change in fixed-broadband penetration by access platform (OECD data) –2012 – 2021
        • Table Change in the number of fixed-broadband subscribers and penetration – 2012 – 2027
        • Table Decline in the number of dial-up internet subscribers – 2012 – 2018
        • Table Growth in average data consumption per month – 2012 – 2021
        • Table DSL, cable, and fibre broadband subscribers (thousand) –2012 – 2021
        • Table Change in the market share of broadband connections by technology – 2012 – 2021
        • Table Change in fixed-line broadband market share by operator – 2015 – 2021
        • Table Change in the proportion of broadband subscriptions by data rate – 2012 – 2018
        • Table Change in the number of fixed-broadband connections by data cap (per month) (thousand) –2012 – 2018
        • Table Change in the proportion of fixed-broadband connections by data cap (per month) –2012 – 2018
        • Table Change in the market share of internet subscribers by residential/business segment – 2012 – 2018
    • HYBRID FIBRE COAX (HFC) NETWORKS
      • Vodafone NZ
        • Table Change in the number of Vodafone NZ’s fixed broadband subscribers – 2012 – 2019
    • DIGITAL SUBSCRIBER LINE (DSL) NETWORKS
      • Table Change in the number of Vocus broadband subscribers – 2016 – 2021
      • Table Change in the number of Spark’s broadband subscribers by platform (thousand) –2014 – 2021
      • Table Development of Spark’s broadband revenue – 2012 – 2022
    • FIBRE-TO-THE-PREMISES (FTTP) NETWORKS
      • Table Increase in the number of UFB fibre subscribers – 2012 – 2021
      • Wholesale fibre
    • OTHER FIXED BROADBAND SERVICES
      • Wi-Fi/ WiMAX
      • Satellite broadband
  • Digital economy
    • MARKET OVERVIEW
    • E-COMMERCE AND M-COMMERCE
      • Streaming Services
    • E-HEALTH
    • E-LEARNING
    • E-GOVERNMENT
  • Fixed network operators
    • SPARK
      • Table Development of Spark’s financial data (NZ$ million) –2012 – 2022
      • Table Annual change in Spark’s financial data – 2012 – 2022
      • Table Change in Spark’s revenue by sector (NZ$ million) –2012 – 2022
      • Table Spark’s operating expenses by sector (NZ$ million) –2012 – 2022
      • Table Change in the number of Spark’s fixed lines by division (thousand) –2012 – 2021
      • Table Annual change in Spark’s fixed lines by division – 2012 – 2021
    • VOCUS
      • Table Change in Vocus’s financial data (NZ$ million) –2016 – 2021
  • Telecommunications infrastructure
    • OVERVIEW OF THE NATIONAL TELECOM NETWORK
      • Table Change in the number of fixed-line accesses and teledensity – 2012 – 2027
      • Table Fixed-line voice traffic use by type (billion minutes) –2012 – 2021
      • Table Fixed-line retail revenue – 2012 – 2021
    • UFB
      • Table Change in the number of Chorus’s connections by type (million) –2013 – 2021
      • Table Development of Chorus’s financial data (NZ$ million) –2013 – 2022
      • UFB2/2+ program
      • New networks adding financial value to the economy
    • WHOLESALE FIBRE
    • SPARK JOINT VENTURE WITH ELECTRA GROUP
    • RURAL BROADBAND INITIATIVE (RBI)
    • INTERNATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE
      • Tasman Global Access (TGA)
      • Southern Cross Cable (SCCN) and Southern Cross NEXT
      • Hawaiki Cable
      • Topaz
      • Humboldt
    • SMART INFRASTRUCTURE
      • Connected cars
      • Smart electricity meters
      • Smart grids
      • Smart cities
  • Appendix – Historic data
    • Table Historic - Internet users and penetration – 2001 – 2016
    • Table Historic - Telecom investment by sector (NZ$ million) –2006 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Subscriptions to services by sector (million) –2006 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Regulated UCLL and UBA pricing (NZ$ per month per line) –2010 – 2012; 2014 – 2015
    • Table Historic - Sprint payments from TRS/TSO – 2005 – 2014
    • Table Historic - Spark and Vodafone network termination rates (Cents per minute) –2011 – 2014
    • Table Historic - Mobile voice traffic – 2006 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Mobile voice traffic use per connection – 2006 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Mobile subscribers and penetration – 2001 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Annual change in mobile subscribers per major operator – 2002 – 2009
    • Table Historic - Market share of mobile subscribers per operator – 1996 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Spark prepaid versus postpaid subscribers – 2005 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Vodafone prepaid versus postpaid subscribers – 2005 – 2016
    • Table Historic - Spark and Vodafone network termination rates – 2010 – 2014
    • Table Historic - Mobile market revenue – 2006 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Mobile broadband traffic – 2010 – 2014
    • Table Historic - Spark mobile subscribers – 2001 – 2009
    • Table Historic - Estimated New Zealand population shopping online – 2008 - 2015
    • Table Historic - Spark fixed lines in operation by division – 2008 – 2012
    • Table Historic - Spark capital expenditure – 1999 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Local access lines – 2002 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Local service calling revenue – 2002 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Spark’s mobile subscribers – 2005 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Fixed-line voice traffic use per connection – 2008 – 2016
    • Table Historic - Change in the number of UCLL lines – 2009 – 2018
    • Table Historic - Development of telecom sector revenue – 2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Development of SMS traffic – 2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Development of Spark’s mobile service revenue – 2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Development of Spark Mobile’s ARPU (NZ$ / month) –2008 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Growth in the number of 2degrees’ mobile subscribers – 2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Change in the market share of internet subscribers by residential/business segment – 2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Development of Spark’s financial data (NZ$ million) –2009 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Fixed-line voice traffic use by type (billion minutes) –2006 – 2011
    • Table Historic - Fixed-line retail revenue – 2006 – 2011
  • Glossary of abbreviations
  • Related reports

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