As an anecdata point, I don't know anyone with fibre and I live in Auckland. I get 3mb on a good day when it's still and sunny. Rain and wind lead to dial up speeds.
Wonder if the rollout has targeted certain areas first - newer suburbs first or those with the dodgiest copper? It really is dire where I am. I tried to get on the Rural broadband (4g) bandwagon but the people at Spark I talked to just couldn't understand why anyone wouldn't want the copper connection.
that's interesting, I (used to) live in Christchurch, and the statement is what we had at the time. Most of the folks I knew were more rural, and either had adsl, dial up, or a 3G usb stick.