Spark Broadband

Spark New Zealand Limited is a New Zealand telecommunications and digital services company providing fixed-line telephone services, mobile phone services, broadband, and digital technology services (including cloud, security, digital transformation, and managed services). Its customers range from consumers to small - medium business, government agencies and large enterprise clients.

It was formerly known as Telecom New Zealand until it was rebranded to Spark on 8 August 2014. It has operated as a publicly traded company since 1990. Spark's mobile network reaches 98% of New Zealand, with over 2.7 million mobile connections and 687,000 broadband connections

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Compare Spark Broadband Plans

Reliability	6.3
Speed	6.0
Support	5.2
Features	5.9
Value	4.4

Average from 365 reviews

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2018-05-25 10:39:26

D Wilson 6.4

been with spark for a very long time, but was worried about changing ip so procrastinated, and have a much better deal to come without any problems hopefully

Pros

chat online service good

Cons

pricing too high

2018-05-03 13:01:48

Brian Field 5.8

Support. Communication is very poor with no replies to initial emails or phone.And at this point in time when deciding to change provider. Also expect all customers to understand their internet system and contract( am aged mid 70ΓÇÖs )
Value. Over the top

2018-05-02 04:39:54

Mathew 6.6

overall score will be 6/10

Pros

good customer support

Cons

becomes very at peak times
poor land line quality

2018-05-02 01:51:12

alex wright 3.2

using wireless broadband for past year. Started well with reasonable connections (3 bars) and speed (close to 20 Mbps). Over that time speeds have deteriorated significantly (now regularly below 10 Mbpbs and lost connections are common (connection now never above 2 bars)

Pros

like Lightbox

Cons

Poor support. Contacted support two days ago who said the issue would be passed to the technical dept Have heard nothing back and no change to connection or speeds.

2018-04-30 10:57:01

Craig 1.0

Slowest rural broadband speed ever. Tonight I have .34mbps, so not even 1mbps. After months of contact with Spark, they have finally admitted the rural broadband in my area of Pukekohe is ADSL and cant handle the congestion so we just have to put up with it. Given that lightbox requires at least 600 kbps, we cant even watch a program without buffering and cutting off at least 30 times in one episode. They say chorus has no intention of upgrading the equipment in the area but ...read more

Pros

Rural broadband there are no pros with Spark. Worst service imaginable.

Cons

Their speed, service, equipment and customer service skills.

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Rural homes with broadband too slow to stream Rugby World Cup

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Around 40,000 rural homes won’t have fast enough broadband to stream Rugby World Cup

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