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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2017-04-10 14:56:12

Lawrence Adam 8.0

Needs to keep up with new software like windows 10. Too expensive and not much different than the cheaper options. what about a discount bundle price for phone, mobile and broadband. Look at the UK market for how the future will look.

Pros

Speed is not bad, lots of extra stuff; antivirus, lightbox, discount tickets etc.

Cons

Expensive compared to the others. Free antivirus doesn't work with windows10. Automatic configuration app doesn't work with windows10. So unless you use yesterday's technology useless free stuff.

2017-04-08 06:11:21

Richard Finlay 6.0

This was a new connection but we have had at our other premises. We decided not to use them for this new connection

Pros

The connection was reliable

Cons

You could never get them to answer the phone if we needed to talk to them. They always had to ring back (which they did) but by then you had given up what you were wanting to do

2017-04-08 03:35:49

Ron 3.0

It's really not bad when it works.
Sadly, you can never count upon when that's going to be, nor how long it will work for.
A week or two after the tech comes out, or you spend 2 hours on the phone with support to arrange things seems miraculous.

Pros

You can have them call you without listening to the hold music.

When it works, it's at least average.

Cons

Disconnects. Horrible lag, and terrible latency. Buffer/load times, with random stoppages on Netflix or light box.

2017-03-31 11:30:20

Paul Ross 7.6

Spark is quite expensive, but a good service with Lightbox included

2017-03-29 07:14:43

Korstiaan 9.4

Gigabit Fibre Brilliant

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

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