Crown Infrastructure Partners works with four companies to deploy UFB across New Zealand.
Chorus
Chorus is the largest partner of CIP’s four Co-Investment Partners and is contracted to deliver fibre to about 1.3 million homes, businesses, schools and medical centres right across New Zealand by 2022.
Rolling out UFB to more than 350 communities right across the country.
UFB Partner: Chorus
Chorus is New Zealand’s largest telecommunications infrastructure company.
Chorus is the largest partner of CIP’s four Co-Investment Partners and is contracted to deliver fibre to about 1.3 million homes, businesses, schools and medical centres right across New Zealand by 2022. Chorus is an organisation built on a passion for keeping people connected, and an ambition to create the best-connected country in the world.
Chorus is not a Local Fibre Company; instead CIP invests directly in Chorus as the UFB network is deployed, in the form of non-voting equity and debt securities.
CIP and Chorus have formed an Executive Group to oversee Chorus’s part of this initiative. The Executive Group, like the LFCs, has equal representation from both CIP and Chorus.
Co-Investment Partner website: www.chorus.co.nz
Executive Group members: Mr JB Rousselot, Mr Andrew Carroll (Chorus appointees), Mr Graham Mitchell, Mr Sean Wynne (CIP appointees).
General Terms (10 December 2012)
UFB Price Caps (1 July 2020)
Service Description – Bitstream 2
Service Description – Bitstream 3
Service Description – Bitstream 3A
Service Description – Bitstream 4
Service Description – Baseband
Service Description – Multicast
Service Description – ATA Voice
Service Description – UFB Handover
Service Description – Direct Fibre Access Service
Service Description – Colocation
Service Level Terms – Colocation
Service Level Terms – Direct Fibre Access Services
Operations Manual – Bitstream
Operations Manual – Direct Fibre Access Services
Operations Manual – Colocation
Agreements with UFB Partners
Chorus Limited_ Deed of Open Access Undertakings for Fibre Services (amended 2014)
Interim_Period_Agreement
IPA_Amendment_8_September
IPA_amendment_18_August
IPA_Amendment_23_August
NIPA Amendment Letters
Network Infrastructure Project Agreement (NIPA) 24 May 2011
Network Infrastructure Project Agreement (NIPA) 26 Jan 2017
Partner Fact Sheets
Enable
The Enable Group (Enable) is made up of Enable Services Limited and local fibre company Enable Networks Limited.
Services Christchurch, Rangiora, Kaiapoi, Woodend, Lincoln, Prebbleton and Rolleston.
UFB Partner: Enable
The Enable Group (Enable) is made up of Enable Services Limited and local fibre company Enable Networks Limited.
Enable Services is a wholly owned subsidiary of Christchurch City Holdings Limited (CCHL), the investment arm of the Christchurch City Council. It was launched in 2007 to establish a commercial fibre network in Christchurch.
In May 2011, Enable Services entered in a partnership with CIP to build and operate the UFB network for Christchurch and surrounding centres. This partnership established Enable Networks as a joint venture between CIP and Enable Services.
In June 2016, due to the success of the greater Christchurch UFB project, Enable Services took full ownership of Enable Networks. CIP’s investment in the project transferring from equity in Enable Networks to an interest free loan to CCHL.
LFC website: www.enable.net.nz
- Co-Investment Partner website: www.cchl.co.nz
- Enable Group Chair: Brett Gamble
- Enable Group Directors: Mark Bowman, Bill Luff, Charlotte Walshe, Craig Elliott and Kathy Meads.
General Terms (13 November 13)
UFB Price Caps (1 July 2020)
Service Description – Bitstream 2
Service Description – Bitstream 3
Service Description – Bitstream 3A
Service Description – Bitstream 4
Service Description – Baseband
Service Description – Multicast Service
Service Description – UFB Handover
Service Description – Direct Fibre
Service Description – Colocation
Service Level Terms – Bitstream
Service Level Terms – Direct Fibre
Service Level Terms – Colocation
Operations Manual – Bitstream
Operations Manual – Direct Fibre
Operations Manual – Colocation
Agreements with UFB Partners
Partner Fact Sheets
Northpower
Established in 1920, Northpower has expanded from a Northland-owned and operated electricity distribution network to become one of the largest multi-utility contractors in New Zealand, with a reputation for excellence and innovation.
Services Kaipara and Whangarei
UFB Partner: Northpower
Established in 1920, Northpower has expanded from a Northland-owned and operated electricity distribution network to become one of the largest multi-utility contractors in New Zealand, with a reputation for excellence and innovation.
The company has two distinct divisions: Northpower Network, providing electricity and fibre infrastructure to Whangarei and Kaipara, and Northpower Contracting, operating throughout the North Island.
Northpower and CIP are Co-Investment Partners in the Local Fibre Company, Northpower Fibre.
Co-Investment Partner website: www.northpower.co.nz
- LFC website: www.northpowerfibre.co.nz
- LFC chair: Ms Jo Brosnahan
- LFC Directors: Mr Andrew McLeod, Ms Josie Boyd, (Northpower appointees)
General Terms (13 November 2013)
UFB Price Caps (1 July 2020)
UFB2 Price Caps (1 July 2020)
Service Description – Bitstream 2
Service Description – Bitstream 2a
Service Description – Bitstream 3
Service Description – Bitstream 3A
Service Description – Bitstream 4
Service Description – Baseband
Service Description – Multicast
Service Description – ATA Voice
Service Description – UFB Handover
Service Description – Direct Fibre Access Service
Service Description – Colocation
Service Description for Fibre Interconnection Service (3 April 2012)
Service Level Terms – Bitstream
Service Level Terms – Direct Fibre Access Service
Service Level Terms Fibre Interconnection Service (3 April 2012)
Operations Manual – Bitstream
Operations Manual – Direct Fibre
Operations Manual – Colocation
Agreements with UFB Partners
Northpower – Network Infrastructure Assets Transfer Agreement (redacted)
Northpower – Network Infrastructure Project Agreement and schedules (redacted)
Northpower – Shareholders Agreement (redacted)
Whangarei Local Fibre Company Limited Deed of Open Access Undertakings for Fibre Services
WLFC Service Description for Fibre Interconnection Service 3 April 2012 (final)
WLFC Service Level Terms Fibre Interconnection Service 3 April
WLFC – Price List 14 May 2012
Partner Fact Sheets
UltraFast Fibre
The Local Fibre Company Ultrafast Fibre Limited (UFF) was formed in 2010 by CIP in partnership with WNL, a subsidiary of WEL Networks and Waipa Networks (the electricity lines company serving Te Awamutu and Cambridge).
Services the Bay of Plenty and Waikato regions
UFB Partner: UltraFast Fibre
The Local Fibre Company Ultrafast Fibre Limited (UFF) was formed in 2010 by CIP in partnership with WNL, a subsidiary of WEL Networks and Waipa Networks (the electricity lines company serving Te Awamutu and Cambridge).
UFF is responsible for building a 3,000km fibre network in the urban areas of Hamilton, Tauranga, Whanganui, New Plymouth, Tokoroa, Hawera, Cambridge and Te Awamutu, passing over 192,000 premises. Currently, works are underway for the next phase of the network expansion to an additional 12 towns and communities in the Central North Island.
This represents about 13% of the entire national ultra-fast broadband deployment.
Co-Investment Partner website: www.wel.co.nz
- Website: www.ultrafastfibre.co.nz
- Chair: Rob Campbell
- Directors: Tony Barnes, Keith Goodall, Barry Harris, Geoffrey Lawrie, Tony Steele, Carolyn Steele, Candace Kinser
General Terms (13 November 13)
UFB Price Caps (1 July 2020)
Service Description – Bitstream 2
Service Description – Bitstream 3
Service Description – Bitstream 3A
Service Description – Bitstream 4
Service Description – Baseband
Service Description – Multicast Service
Service Description – UFB Handover
Service Description – Direct Fibre Access Service
Service Description – Colocation
Service Level Terms – Bitstream
Service Level Terms – Direct Fibre Access Services
Service Level Terms – Colocation
Operations Manual – Bitstream
Operations Manual – Direct Fibre Access Services
Operations Manual – Colocation Service