CFE Internet para Todos – Free Rural Broadband Hotspots across Mexico
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Skinny Jump – Subsidised Mobile Broadband for Low-Income Households
New Zealand · Auckland · See the New Zealand profile
Skinny Jump delivers heavily subsidised 4G broadband at NZD $5/35 GB — a quarter of commercial pricing — to low-income New Zealand households, reaching 31,776 active connections by July 2024 through a 300+ community-partner network.
NZD $5 / 35 GB
Price
31,776
Active connections (by Jul 2024)
300+
Community partners
Details
- Maturity
- Scaling
- Promoter
- Spark Foundation / Skinny Mobile
- Period
- 2016-present
- Keywords
- Low-income households, affordable connectivity, digital divide, mobile broadband
Context
Skinny Jump delivers heavily subsidised 4G broadband to low-income New Zealand households through a community-partner network.
Results
At NZD $5 per 35 GB — a quarter of commercial pricing — it reached 31,776 active connections by July 2024 through a 300+ community-partner network.
Implementation
Implementation detail (cost, timeline, staffing, conditions for success) is not yet available for this practice.
Data sources
Where this practice's information was retrieved from, and when.
- C-NAPSE web research — accessed 2026-06-21
- Spark Foundation / Skinny Mobile — accessed 2026-06-21
- Spark NZ – Digital Equity page (lead org) — accessed 2026-06-21
- NZ Herald – Surge in Skinny Jump broadband as cost-of-living bites (independent press) — accessed 2026-06-21
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