Statistics on Information Technology in New Zealand 6. The Internet in New Zealand has essentially a two-tier structure. The first tier is wholesalers, ie those who operate offshore links and bring overseas Internet traffic to New Zealand.
Internet users are customers of ISPs, who are in turn customers of the wholesalers.
The data for this section is derived from the results of a survey undertaken every six months by Network Wizards. To be counted as a host, a computer must have its own Internet address and be permanently and directly connected to the Internet. Home or small business computers which connect by dialling up to a service provider are therefore not counted. Consequently, it is reasonable to assume that there are more users than hosts, possibly by a factor of two or more. The following graph shows the growth in the number of hosts connected to the Internet in New Zealand, as well as the number connected worldwide, from July 1991 through to January 1997.