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29 January 2018
Mohammed Aldarwesh 9.4
Although I did not chose what you recommended for me, it gave me an idea of what to choose.
I had to choose Spark as the old
29 January 2018
Aimee Christensen 5.8
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28 January 2018
Rattan 1.4
The worst broadband service provider of Nz
Pros
You can get combined broadband bill with power bill.
Cons
Worst customer service and support,
Customer agents having lack of knowledge,
No service in casebook emergency, Customer care won't pick your call
Unreliable modem,
No reliability
23 January 2018
Vincent 1.2
It pretty much never worked for us
Pros
N/A
Cons
Too much
23 January 2018
Sonya Maniapoto 4.6
Extremely difficult to get support - compounded by poor mobile data reception at the address in question, effectively meant each email conversation took a day to have. Sux
21 January 2018
John Hopkins 1
Useless: in Europe the 'service' offering would contravene the consumer protection act
Pros
You have to be kidding me!
Cons
Utterly useless. In the year we have had the service the phone only worked in the last 5 weeks and the, so called, broadband is so degraded and contested as to be virtually unusable. I have spent literally hours and hours explaining to non-technical and technical people the nature of the problem to no avail and staggering frustration. The selling of the 'service' to us was predicated on a tissue of falsehoods. The line is highly over contested and seen as too costly for Spark to remediate. Prove me incorrect if you can. ...read more
21 January 2018
George Gibbs 8.4
Friendly, helpful support whenever we have needed it.
Pros
Very easy to deal with.
Cons
None.
18 January 2018
Maggot 1
Couldn't sort out a new connection in 2 months. Kept getting BS excuses and no drive to sort it. Seemed happy to lose my business as it was in the 'difficult pile'
Pros
erm.... their phone number is easy to remember (although difficult to navigate). Their people seem nice.
Cons
absolutely unable to arrange a new connection (i.e. a connection to a new build). Not that anything was required apart from a chorus tech to turn up and join 2 wires together. Excuses for no connection were quite entertaining. Not able to drive Chorus. For new connections - AVOID SKINNY ...read more
18 January 2018
James 9.2
Good value, excellent service and a great all-around ISP.
Pros
Solid, full-speed 100/20 fibre connection
Excellent Fritzbox modem
Takes maybe a minute to get through to support CSRs
Cons
Nearly finished my 2-year contract and I don't have any cons
16 January 2018
Laurence Pask 8.8
I have been with Spark for several years now - Home line, Broadband and cellular. I don't consider them the cheapest but overall they give a great service and I am happy with them.
They seem to be the follower rather than the leader in pricing - awaiting to see if they are losing customers then move in offering existing customers with better deals. e.g rollover data and talk minutes on Cellular and increased speed on adsl.
If you are thinking of moving contact them and see if you can squeeze out a better deal. ...read more
Pros
For Support - use online chat. You can type in the problem and all the details - that way support team don't have to throw a lot of questions or guess what you are trying to say.
I have heard negative comments about their telephone support but I have always found it good.
I was helping a friend who is with another "cheaper" Cellular provider. Telephone support was hopeless. Some Support workers who have English as a second language do not understand Kiwis idioms and "Kiwi speak"
I have never found that problem with Spark.
...read more
Cons
Broadband slows down sometimes to a complete stop from 3 minutes to the hour too about 7 minutes past the hour. Why is this? Is everyone logging on at the same time?

Also - are they throttling down the speed on certain I.P. addresses? Other ISP may be doing the same. ...read more
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