New Zealand - Wireless Broadband - Statistics, Overview & Providers

Synopsis

Wireless broadband remains a niche medium in New Zealand with usage restricted principally to regional areas outside the coverage of ADSL and cable services. Competition is provided by a number of niche wireless broadband providers including Woosh Wireless, Kordia, CityLink and Wired Country. The two mobile operators, Telecom and Vodafone, are now providing direct competition to these wireless broadband players through mobile data broadband services, and this is now opening up competition. Several WiMAX deployments are currently underway throughout the country; however, due to ongoing delays with the development of the technology, laptops with WiMAX embedded chips were unlikely to become widely available until some time in 2009. This report provides insight to the country’s wireless broadband market with overviews of the major players, an outline of developments in WiFi and WiMAX, plus information on satellite communications.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
  
• 2. Wireless broadband market
  
  • 2.1 Overview
    
  • 2.2 WiFi
    
  • 2.3 WiMAX
    
    • 2.3.1 Overview
      
    • 2.3.2 WiMAX analysis
      
  • 2.4 Satellite
    
    • 2.4.1 IPSTAR
      
    • 2.4.2 ICONZ
      
    • 2.4.3 Optus
      
    • 2.4.4 PanAmSat
      
• 3. Major wireless broadband providers
  
  • 3.1 Compass Communications
    
    • 3.1.1 Wired Country
      
  • 3.2 Kordia
    
  • 3.3 National Communications Corporation
    
  • 3.4 nzwireless
    
  • 3.5 Swiftnet Ltd
    
  • 3.6 RoamAD
    
  • 3.7 TelstraClear
    
  • 3.8 thepacific.net
    
  • 3.9 Vodafone
    
  • 3.10 Woosh Wireless
    
    • 3.10.1 Overview
      
    • 3.10.2 Strategy analysis
      
    • 3.10.3 Operating statistics and financial results
      
• 4. Related reports
  

• Table 1 – Woosh Wireless subscribers – 2005 - 2008
• Table 2 – Woosh Wireless customer base by service – July 2008
• Table 3 – Woosh Wireless revenue – 2004 – 2006; 2008
• Table 4 – Woosh Wireless profit/(loss) – 2004 – 2006; 2008