Kiwi Broadband Usage Grew 37 During Pandemic Peak
“Our 2020 monitoring report includes the first COVID-19 lockdown period and it shows that changes in the way Kiwis worked, learned, and played led to significant growth in fixed broadband usage,” said Telecommunications commissioner Tristan Gilbertson. Mobile data usage also increased by 22% year-on-year to 3.3GB per month during that same period. The data usage trends were released by New Zealand’s Commerce Commission (ComCom) as part of its annual telecommunications monitoring report [PDF], which also unveiled total industry and connection metrics....