The Star: October 14, 2021
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<strong>The</strong> <strong>Star</strong> Thursday <strong>October</strong> <strong>14</strong> <strong>2021</strong><br />
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Own your own broadband network?<br />
<strong>The</strong> people of Christchurch already do<br />
RUNNING UNDER the streets<br />
of Christchurch and stretching<br />
across the Canterbury Plains to<br />
Rolleston, Lincoln, Rangiora,<br />
Woodend and Kaiapoi is a<br />
3500km world-class fibre<br />
broadband network that is owned<br />
by the Christchurch community.<br />
Enable’s commitment to its<br />
community began back in 2007<br />
when it was established to address<br />
the lack of local investment<br />
by telecommunications companies<br />
in fibre broadband.<br />
Fourteen years on and Enable<br />
fibre broadband reaches over<br />
200,000 households and businesses<br />
across greater Christchurch,<br />
with 134,000 customers enjoying<br />
all the benefits fibre broadband<br />
has to offer. Fibre broadband is<br />
the number one option for broadband<br />
customers, accounting for<br />
75 per cent of fixed broadband<br />
connections across Enable’s coverage<br />
area.<br />
Enable fibre broadband is here<br />
to support Christchurch people<br />
to realise new possibilities in the<br />
digital world through creativity<br />
and innovation.<br />
to its community by providing<br />
new opportunities in areas<br />
it believes it can add value and<br />
deliver its tenants a free maximum<br />
speed (1Gbps) wholesale<br />
internet service in which ŌCHT<br />
believes in digital equity across will use to develop its tenants’<br />
A vision<br />
263<br />
for digital equity Christchurch.<br />
x 180<br />
online skills, educating and creating<br />
opportunities for them that<br />
across Christchurch<br />
<strong>The</strong> most recent of those, is its<br />
Enable is always looking for plan to partner with the Ōtautahi wouldn’t be possible without an<br />
ways the business can contribute Community Housing Trust to internet connection.<br />
Employing Cantabrians<br />
and offering opportunities<br />
beyond employment<br />
Enable is based in Christchurch’s<br />
central business district<br />
and employs over 130 local<br />
people, as well as many contractors<br />
connecting people to and<br />
maintaining its network, which<br />
supports local families and benefits<br />
the local economy.<br />
All of Enable’s people have<br />
helped build a truly successful<br />
business that is now generating<br />
returns to the community,<br />
from the power of Enable’s fibre<br />
broadband, supporting the<br />
local community to realise new<br />
possibilities, the dividends Enable<br />
has paid to the city, and to the<br />
many smaller positive impacts<br />
Enable has made.<br />
Enable’s community<br />
sponsorship programme<br />
empowers its people to support<br />
local initiatives it is directly<br />
involved in. Sponsorships have<br />
included support for Miscarriage<br />
Matters, a support group for<br />
women who have miscarried,<br />
and Big Brothers Big Sisters, that<br />
mentors youth. Both not-forprofit<br />
organisations that are doing<br />
good in the community.<br />
Enable fibre broadband<br />
is focused on the future of<br />
Christchurch and is always<br />
looking for new ways to<br />
contribute.<br />
Enable is passionate about<br />
the work it is doing and is<br />
looking forward to seeing what<br />
possibilities lie ahead for the city<br />
and the areas it can contribute.<br />
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