PIERS FULLER/Stuff
Though Andy Kerr’s got good cellular reception at his rural Masterton property just out of town, the wireless broadband offered by the mainstream suppliers was not up to standard.
The promise of connectivity on par with their urban neighbours is a distant dream for many rural people whose broadband performance is getting worse, not better. Masterton IT manager Andy Kerr found his wireless broadband connection so poor that it was unworkable at certain times of the day, so he dropped his contract and changed to a small local provider. He only lived a few kilometres from town with a strong cellular signal, and he believed the networks were under too much pressure from increased data use.