Dunedin City Council Broadband

Information from Flute Networks:

Aurora Energy Ltd will be the network owner and Flute Network is the
Brand. We are a wholly owned subsidiary of Dunedin City Holdings Ltd,
who in turn are a wholly owned subsidiary of the DCC. Our role will be
to install and provide infrastructure which is dark optical fibre. We
will not be providing active equipment.

We will have a group of approved Partners who will connect to the Flute
Network. These Partners will all provide value added services including;
ISP services; management of the network; full IT solutions;
application/hardware hosting; applications. Alternatively you can engage
any IT Integrator to commission the fibre service.

Any company, organisation or individual can connect to the network. A
contract term of at least 3 years is common. Generally the decision to
purchase is driven by the need for connection speeds of 10Mb/s or
higher. The service is not targeted at domestic consumers at this stage
and is not likely to be economic in that situation in the short term.
As the network grows, there will be loops which will provide network
diversity.

What follows from this is that the success of this network will
depend on the price and specs of the services being offered by the
Partners.