Vodafone New Zealand has signed more than 300,000 Kiwis onto its 4G-enabled plans since launching LTE service one year ago today. Operator reports 177% increase in 4G customers over the last six months and significant growth in 4G prepay base, over 30,000 since plans launched about 8 weeks back.

Since launching in February 2013, Vodafone has rolled out LTE across New Zealand, LTE will be available at 48 locations by April. 4G goes live in Dunedin, Hastings, Invercargill, Napier, Nelson, Rotorua and Whangarei by the end of April.

Total data use across the Vodafone network grew by 70% between July 2013 and January 2014, where as 4G data use quadrupled.

Vodafone currently offers a large range of 4G-capable devices, 29 now, including the recently launched BlackBerry Q5, Samsung S4 Active, HTC One Mini and Apple iPad Air. Vodafone 4G is included free on Red, On Account and Prepay plans, starting from $19.