New Zealand VoIP Providers Team with State-Owned Kordia for Rural VoIP Push

A big rural VoIP campaign has been planned in New Zealand yb VoIP providers Bay City Communications and WorldxChange, according to Peter Griffin of the New Zealand Herald. Geoff Hun of Kordia tells Peter that there are about 2,000 users on the networks, but there’s room for ten times that number.

Peter thinks that WorldxChange VoIP will be delivered via broadband rather than through a dedicated channel, and that this is likelier to be attractive to New Zealand residents in the area.

Peter notes that WorldxChange’s Paul Clarkin says there have been dozens of people successfully using it for months as part of a trial,

The problem is that new users are still faced with that big upfront cost ($800) of installing the equipment that connects their house or business wirelessly to the Kordia transmission tower,” Peter writes. “That is still a significant barrier to uptake. But now that customers can actually ditch their $40 a month Telecom phone line the economics of the service work out better for everyone concerned.