OrconBlog

We may only be a couple of weeks into the New Year, but the team here are hard at work preparing the unbundled Orcon network for release to the public. In fact, as you were lying in bed on the first of January trying to piece together the foggy fragments of the previous night our network engineers were busy doing what engineers do: Engineering networks. And so it was that last week we began connecting the first Orcon customers onto the Orcon network, thereby severing their ties with Telecom.

A select group of customers in the first exchange areas have been invited to participate in this end user Beta trial. Don't worry if you weren't one of them, Orcon customers will be the first to be invited onto the new network when it launches, before the general public.

As we have mentioned previously the first exchange areas are: Ponsonby, Glenfield, Browns Bay, Ellerslie and Mt Albert. We will be able to supply the majority of homes and businesses in these areas. A line checker will be available for you to determine if you are able to connect to the Orcon network.

Throughout this year and next more exchanges will be unbundled, firstly in Auckland and later around the country. We will be offering customers the ultimate in broadband performance delivered via the Orcon network - a true alternative to Telecom. Customers currently connected on the trial are getting download speeds well above what they had previously experienced, all between 10 and 18Mbps.

There is a lot to be excited about, and we are really optimistic that this year we will be able to deliver an excellent service, the likes of which New Zealanders have yet to experience.

So on behalf of the Orcon team welcome to 2008, it is going to be a great year.

Check out the official Beta trial press release.

P.S. For those of you who are Apple fans remember that you can catch the 2008 Macworld Keynote speech on the Apple international website from about 6am New Zealand time tomorrow. Rumour has it there is a big announcement coming. Last year it was the iPhone, what will it be this time?