Starlink offered a median download speed of 118.70 Mbps in New Zealand during the first quarter of 2022, only a fraction higher than fixed broadband’s 116.83Mbps (which is more than double Australia’s fixed broadband median). Starlink satellite speeds looks far less impressive in New Zealand, when pitted against the nationwide fibre-to-the-premises rollout. That’s little consolation to homes which will remain stuck on fibre-to-the-node. NBN Co plans to upgrade many fibre-to-the-node areas to fibre-to-the-premises by the end of 2023, which will certainly help lift the network’s median download speeds. Even by the end of the rollout, 24 percent of FTTN connections won’t be able to reach 100 Mbps speeds. In June 2021, NBN Co revealed that 10 percent of homes connected to fibre-to-the-node could not access download speeds above 50 Mbps. It is still heavily reliant on the ageing copper network for connection technologies like fibre-to-the-node, offering slow connections which drag down the nationwide median speed. To be fair, Australia’s low fixed broadband result is the median taken across the country’s entire hotch potch Multi-Technology Mix NBN. The result is considerably faster than Australian fixed broadband, with median download speeds of only 50.87 Mbps. In Australia, Starlink offered a median download speed of 124.31 Mbps during the first quarter of 2022, according to Ookla’s Speedtest Intelligence report. Early Starlink customers have been rewarded with the fastest median download speeds in the region.
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