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As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark's purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. Spark provides mobile, broadband and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.
Spark New Zealand - Latest News [Page 16]
Next-generation mobile technology comes to Silverdale
Thursday, 15 December 2016, 11:53 am | Spark NZ
Spark leads the way, launching New Zealand’s second 4.5G mobile site to “hyper-connect” one of the fastest-growing Auckland suburbs More >>
Update on Spark network, following yesterday’s power outage
Tuesday, 13 December 2016, 2:58 pm | Spark NZ
Following yesterday’s fatal light plane crash and a subsequent power outage in the Gisborne area, Spark has been closely monitoring and actively managing its network in the region and working hard to deploy generators across the region. While the ... More >>
Update on Spark mobile network following Gisborne crash
Monday, 12 December 2016, 4:30 pm | Spark
Update on Spark mobile network, following fatal light plane crash and subsequent power outage in Gisborne today More >>
Update on Spark network, following power outage in Northland
Thursday, 8 December 2016, 12:03 pm | Spark NZ
Following a widespread power outage in the Upper North Island that occurred early this morning, Spark has been closely monitoring and actively managing its mobile network in the region. While the network is generally performing well there are some ... More >>
Spark launches Ultra Fast Fibre MAX
Thursday, 1 December 2016, 12:14 pm | Spark
Spark customers can now buy Ultra Fast Fibre MAX, a broadband service delivered over gigabit technology. This new broadband plan option is now the fastest residential broadband service available from Spark. More >>
Spark and Chorus to trial ‘street in a week’ fibre
Tuesday, 29 November 2016, 10:54 am | Spark
Spark and Chorus are piloting a process aiming to make it easier for homeowners to install fibre for their broadband service. More >>
Spark restores connectivity for the South Island
Monday, 21 November 2016, 12:34 pm | Spark NZ
Spark has now completed the process of restoring the communications services that were affected by last Sunday’s earthquake. The vast majority of customers with Spark mobile, broadband and landline connections should find that they are now able ... More >>
Spark to waive moving, termination fees for quake affected
Thursday, 17 November 2016, 11:02 am | Spark NZ
Spark has announced today the usual fees for moving or terminating a Spark broadband contract early will not apply to those forced to move as a result of this week’s earthquakes. More >>
Vodafone, Spark & Chorus working together to restore service
Wednesday, 16 November 2016, 3:08 pm | Spark NZ
Spark restored mobile service to Kaikoura at 10am this morning. We’re working with Vodafone and Chorus to get broadband and landline back into town using Vodafone’s offshore Aqualink. If no problems are encountered, it is expected that landline and ... More >>
Free Wi-Fi for New Zealanders today 14.11.16
Monday, 14 November 2016, 12:56 pm | Spark NZ
To help all New Zealanders stay in touch with friends and family today following the earthquake, Spark is letting anyone use our nationwide Wi-Fi network, without restrictions on data limits or who can use it, for free. More >>
Update on the Spark network
Monday, 14 November 2016, 10:49 am | Spark NZ
Spark has now completed a full review of our network following the earthquake this morning. Kaikoura and Blenheim are experiencing the most significant connectivity issues due to damage to the fixed network, and power outages affecting mobile cell ... More >>
111 service update
Monday, 14 November 2016, 10:12 am | Spark NZ
However, some people have experienced, and will still be experiencing, issues calling 111 if they are in the Kaikoura or North Canterbury area, as communications in and out of some communities have been severely impacted by the earthquakes. As some local ... More >>
Spark Network Holding Up Well Following Earthquake(s)
Monday, 14 November 2016, 7:09 am | Spark NZ
SPARK NETWORK HOLDING UP WELL FOLLOWING EARTHQUAKE(S) MEDIA ADVISORY @6am Following the earthquakes off the coast of the South Island this morning, the Spark mobile and broadband network is up and performing normally. Teams of engineers have been ... More >>
Spark launches ambitious Upgrade New Zealand programme
Wednesday, 2 November 2016, 1:40 pm | Spark NZ
Upgrading customers from fault prone copper to fast, more reliable fibre and wireless broadband More >>
Keeping Spark broadband customers connected
Friday, 28 October 2016, 10:23 pm | Spark
Copper lines (which deliver ADSL/VDSL broadband and PSTN voice) are an aging technology managed by Chorus that are prone to faults. Spark saw copper faults become far more common in the winter months due to the wet weather – and spoke to many thousands ... More >>
Spark teams up with The Spinoff
Friday, 28 October 2016, 10:16 am | Spark
Spark announced today that it is partnering with rapidly growing online magazine The Spinoff to produce a new music section on The Spinoff’s website. The new section, which will go live on November 1, will be dedicated to music news, discussion and ... More >>
Taupo Bay gets better access to fast data services
Thursday, 27 October 2016, 4:18 pm | Spark
Beach goers, holiday makers, and residents in the Taupo Bay area will now able to take advantage of better connectivity with their mobile phones thanks to Spark switching on its service on the Government’s Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI) cell tower. More >>
Spark welcomes next phase of Rural Broadband Initiative
Thursday, 27 October 2016, 2:50 pm | Spark NZ
Spark New Zealand today welcomed the decision by Communications Minister Amy Adams to seek proposals to extend the Rural Broadband Initiative (RBI). More >>
Spark Note7 customers to receive $100 gift card
Thursday, 13 October 2016, 2:54 pm | Spark
Spark, together with Samsung, has announced it is posting customers a $100 gift card following the return of their Note7 device to a Spark store. The gift card is not restricted to Spark stores and can be spent on whatever the customer decides. More >>
Important security information for Xtra e-mail customers
Monday, 26 September 2016, 4:22 pm | Spark NZ
Yahoo announced late last week that a copy of some of its user account information was stolen from the company’s global network back in November 2014. Yahoo has since confirmed that information from some of Spark’s Xtra customers is included in the ... More >>
