The findings come from interviews with 48,500 people globally, of whom 500 were in New Zealand.

Fibre ducting plan is the company's first outside of its home base of Sweden; will make gear for the UFB and the Rural Broadband Initiative.

Swedes in Northpower layer 2 win.

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