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75% of the population will have access to fibre at gigabit speeds by 2019 [1]. Coverage will increase to 84% by 2024. Not sure about latencies off the top of my head, but there are several new international cables under construction [2] which will help which accessing sites hosted overseas.

[1] https://www.crownfibre.govt.nz/ [2] http://www.hawaikicable.co.nz/

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I get 200ms latency to my Linode server in Dallas, Texas testing from the North Island. Australia and South East Asia are between 40 and 100ms normally.

That nice for 2019. How about atm though? :)

it's fine if you're in an urban area

The rollout started a number of years ago. They're already over 70% of the way towards the 75% target.

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