Broadband Deal Recommendations for 2025

Lmelp on 31/01/2025 - 12:05
Last edited 19/02/2025 - 09:36 by 1 other user

Last year's Slingshot deal is up for renewal soon. What is a good deal now? Would prefer not to bundle with other utilities like the Contact deal.

General Discussion Fibre Broadband

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      • NovaAlpha on 15/04/2025 - 15:07

        They did say that they can do $65/month if I also bring my power to them as well.

  • 535 on 15/04/2025 - 12:39

    Just had an email come through from Zeronet with the wonderful news that my plan is increasing by $16/month next cycle, so obviously time to move. Horrible customer service with them anyway.

    Anyone have good deals on gigabit at the moment? Or is something like Fast Connect above still the best value out there right now?

  • xsolider on 15/04/2025 - 16:53

    Have looked around. 2Degrees seems to offer the cheapest Fibre300 at the moment. $95/m with $150 joining credit. Use my mum's Super Gold number for $5 off. Turns out $77.5/m. Don't have a mobile plan with them, otherwise further $10 off.

    • xsolider on 02/05/2025 - 14:22

      Now Skinny is the cheapest for Fibre 300. $80/m with first month free = $73.33/m.

  • nzmax on 02/05/2025 - 15:45

    Who is the cheapest 50/10 providers? As Chorus are increasing the speed to 100 soon, that could be a good option for many.

    • jackvdbuk on 02/05/2025 - 16:46

      Believe it's sky ATM.

  • xsolider on 02/05/2025 - 16:23

    So the fibre upgrade is for Chorus users only? The Enable users will stay with what they have?

    • Alan6984 on 02/05/2025 - 16:46

      The Enable users will stay with what they have?

      I think you have to ask them directly if they haven't made any public announcement.

    • Detruire on 02/05/2025 - 18:36
      +1

      The wholesale speed increases will be matched by the other LFCs according to Quic(quic.nz).

  • Martz5 on 12/06/2025 - 08:41

    I see Spark is increasing prices by $5-$8 per month in August… Does anyone have any recent experience with Contact fibre?

    • butterworth on 12/06/2025 - 10:57

      Just swapped to them from Spark after a move about a week ago after running some numbers with their CONTACT200 deal ($200 credit over 4 mo). Have a full power/gas/fibre bundle.

      I work from home so reliability and speed are important - I never had issues with Spark, but they weren't cheap. Decided to go with the 300mbps plan since Chorus is upgrading everything to 500mbps across the board.

      Contact Energy's fibre is provided by Devoli under the hood. Connection was fine and on time, didn't have any issues. Support-wise, I've contacted them for a variety of weird setup things I noticed for our power/gas setup, and it's been relatively painless via a Whatsapp chat.

      I did have to call them directly to disable CGNAT so they'd stop swapping my IP out from under me multiple times a day.
      I have seen some reports that they have reliability issues every now and then (internet just goes out).

      Since it's not a fixed term contract, and my read of their T&Cs is that I just need to stay connected for 4mo to get the full $200 credit, I'll re-evaluate in a few months time!

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