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Reliability 6.4
Speed 5.9
Support 5.3
Features 5.6
Value 5.2
Average from 59 reviews
Two Degrees Mobile Limited (as we are officially known) is New Zealand's newest full service telecommunications provider.
Back in the 90s a visionary group of Maori challenged the crown through the Treaty of Waitangi and won the rights to 3G spectrum. Despite financial and regulatory adversity a Maori Trust (Hautaki) was established with the challenge of launching New Zealand’s third mobile network.
Tex Edwards founded 2degrees in February 2001 and provided initial capital. Later that year investments were made by Strive Masiyiwa’s Econet Wireless group and shortly afterwards the pan-Maori trust Hautaki.
After successfully advocating for critical regulatory realignment the company was fully capitalised in 2007 and construction of its mobile network began.
We commercially launched in 2009, significantly lowering the cost of mobile for Kiwis.
Tex Edwards sold his interests in 2degrees in 2016 after some 15 years of support for the company including as a senior executive, director and founding shareholder.
Since our launch we’ve been busy. We have the backing of a unique partnership of international and Kiwi investors that have enabled us to build a brand new mobile network, helping us to cover 98.5% of the places Kiwis live and work. In March 2015 we also acquired NZ's fourth largest ISP, and now offer broadband services as well as mobile to Kiwis across the country.
We've put in place a great team, led by our CEO Stewart Sherriff and an internationally experienced management team which has a wealth of experience in building and delivering excellent mobile telecommunication networks and services.
We all really believe in what we are trying to accomplish for our customers and New Zealand. We’ve even been lucky enough to be recognised for it along the way, with a number of awards for our customer service over the years.
And this is just the beginning...
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Reliability 6.4
Speed 5.9
Support 5.3
Features 5.6
Value 5.2
Average from 59 reviews
Frank Waa6th October 2018
2degrees
2degrees are proactive with me
Fantastic service
Always ready
None
David Lacey27th September 2018
support is virtually non existant . they don't respond to emails or phone calls
hence we have dumped 2 degress for both broadband and mobile
Annette Clennell22nd September 2018
Can’t speak highly enough about these guys. I have fibre and close to 1 gig download and 500mbps upload and unlimited data. Only had 1 outage in two years which was fixed in 20mins. We stream a lot and have a gamer in the house. No problems at all. No contract and free router. I think we pay $105 per month.
Kiwi based call centre. Don’t have to wait long on the phone. Great reliability and excellent speeds with wired, a little slower with wifi but that’s normal. Discount for having mobile with them.
Can’t really think of any, maybe price could always be cheaper but that’s the same with most things.
Elisabeth19th September 2018
Very expensive and they like to lock you into a contract
Dave Shaw13th September 2018
After 2 years changed provider :
No contract and credit given for change 25 percent of reason
Not getting support to put in better router than provided 75 percent of reason
No support for non isp router :
Danny11th September 2018
Reliability has gotten worse this year. I never used to notice many connection drops, but the last couple of months I have noticed quite a few. I notice because I game a lot which requires consistent good latency. But then, perhaps I am gaming more than I used to? I normally get a latency of ~150ms with game servers being in Singapore. I've never need to use support so can't really objectively comment on that. I have not switched to fiber yet even though its up our street no ...read more
Get a discount for having both mobile and internet accounts under 2degrees.
Christopher Wilson26th July 2018
Nothing you have offered interests me. For $70.71pm I get broadband 80GB fibre & landline. Ideal for my home office.
Value for my needs
Data and speed caps may not suit all.
David Cohen16th July 2018
On a two-year contract, but when I renew in October will be looking closely for who has the best deal as it's expensive for relatively limited speed and not-infrequent drop-outs.
Tim7th July 2018
Not the cheapest, but good performance, good routing, and good value.
Fiber is very reliable - I'm not sure if it's ever gone down. It's fast, I get the performance I expect on the 100/20 plan.
The old Fritzbox 7390's Wifi isn't great, but I hear the newer one is better.
kay6th July 2018
completely unreliable. internet drops in and out all the time.
poor follow-up.
blames the infrastructure but still takes your money.
2degrees used to be good. complete crap. would not recommend to anyone
