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Farmside
Connecting rural New Zealand
Farmside is New Zealand's leading rural telecommunications provider, provides rural and provincial Kiwis with access to the telecommunications services they need to improve productivity, save time and enjoy a better lifestyle.
While most urban New Zealanders can access broadband through fixed phone lines, a high percentage of those who live and work beyond city boundaries experience difficulties with broadband access and performance due to the physical limitations of their local copper infrastructure.
Farmside has overcome these barriers by developing a reliable rural broadband network that spans the entire country, offering broadband access to all rural and provincial dwellers, regardless of distance from an urban centre, isolated location or challenging topography.
Broadband satellite services are not affected by terrestrial limitations. Farmside is New Zealand's primary IPSTAR satellite service provider, with several thousand farmers and other rural dwellers connected and hundreds more joining every month.
Farmside services include rural broadband, voice link, mobile solutions and associated computer and networking equipment to enable integrated connectivity.
Farmside jointly markets broadband packages in partnership with rural co-operatives and suppliers such as ATS, CRT, Elders, Farmlands, PGG Wrightson, RD1 and others. Co-operative members purchase broadband on their supply account in the same way they purchase other essential commodities such as fuel, fertiliser or fencing materials.
 With over nine years experience in rural telecommunications including satellite, wireless, landline and mobile solutions, Farmside has a head office in Timaru and a network of staff and contractors throughout the country. Virtually all of our staff have rural backgrounds and everyone of them understands the benefits that broadband can bring to home and businesses.
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