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A group of Christchurch residents 350m beyond the edge of the city's fibre broadband network face a costly bill to get connected.
About 8000 Christchurch properties have missed out on a city-wide fibre broadband roll-out.
Many of these residents, who all live within the city boundary, have been told they will have to pay thousands of dollars to get access because Christchurch City Council-owned network provider Enable says it is not cost-effective to install fibre to their homes.
A group of 36 homes at the top of Huntsbury hill have to pay $41,400 and residents at the top of Worsleys Rd in Cracroft have to pay $82,800 before Enable will install fibre broadband to 49 properties there.