Fibre Broadband Offers 2026

Wakrak on 06/01/2026 - 11:30
Last edited 06/01/2026 - 15:13

My contract with Mercury ends on the 11th of February (no notice required) so looking to find the best offer.

Prefer 500/100 though keen to hear from those of you that are on 100/20 (I mostly do movie streaming with Real-Debrid, YouTube, several smart appliances, work laptop and mobile phone. Just the TV is connected via ethernet).

Curious to hear what offers people have been accepting in the new year.

Mercury retention offer:
500/100 $99 + $10 discount = $89/month (free modem)

Fast Connect:
2degrees: 500/100 $94/month + $100 credit + Orbi 6 modem = $85.66/month
2degrees: 100/20 $65 + $100 credit + Orbi 6 modem = $56.66/month
One NZ: 500/100 $86/month + $5/month for modem

Skinny
500/100 $90/month + 1 month off (=$82.50/month overall) + $10 modem delivery

Slingshot
500/100 $90/month + $5/month for modem

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            • dealfinder on 17/06/2026 - 12:32

              @fatboyj: Told them my mates has been offered the same plan at $75.

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        • Wakrak on 10/06/2026 - 08:10

          I'm paying $80/month with free router with Sky. Others above are paying $75.

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          • Lifeissupa on 15/06/2026 - 10:20

            @Wakrak: Howz sky boardband going? Definitely considering moving from mercury.

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            • Wakrak on 15/06/2026 - 10:22

              @Lifeissupa: Pretty good overall. I don't have the largest house (3 bedroom), so coverage isn't an issue. So far consistent and reliable.

              I was on Mercury (eero) prior and had issues when working from home on Teams. Yet to encounter any freezing with Sky's router.

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              • Lifeissupa on 15/06/2026 - 10:24

                @Wakrak: Yup mercury has been freezing alot here and do only have a average 3 bdrm home. Cheers for that im definitely going to make the move.

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  • LoudPeach on 18/06/2026 - 09:50

    Contacted 2 Degrees yesterday via email stating I was looking at options. Received the below back within hours

    Unlimited Fibre 500/100MBPS plan - $99/month.
    Monthly discount of $15 for 12 months.
    $10 Pay monthly mobile bundle discount.
    Add-Ons:
    Orbi modem: $5/month
    Your price will be $79/month.
    Please note this is a 12-month contract and an Early Exit of up to $199 applies if cancels within 12 months.

    Mobile account # ********
    We are happy to offer a $5 discount for 12 months for your $35 plan. This means you will pay $30/month for the $35 plan.
    There are no contracts or conditions applicable to the discount offer on your mobile account.

    Please let us know if you would like to go ahead with this and I will be happy to set this up.

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  • PPtheGreat on 22/07/2026 - 16:00

    My 12 month 2 Degrees plan contract expired and I called them to get a retention deal, and here's what I received:

    Unlimited Fibre 500/100 — $101/month
    12 month discount — $15/month
    One time credit — $40

    Monthly cost: $82.67

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    • Karens Hate Winners on 22/07/2026 - 16:33

      You could have just gone with Hotshot. $79/month, open terms, 500/100 unlimited fibre.

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  • spam on 29/07/2026 - 09:10

    I got email from slingshot in the middle of 12 month contract that price in increasing $5/month so come looking for new plans.
    Anyone come across deals recently?

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    • ace310 on 29/07/2026 - 09:34

      How much are you paying currently?

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      • spam on 29/07/2026 - 10:09

        $85/month becomes $90 for the 500/100

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        • ace310 on 30/07/2026 - 09:14

          I got the email today. But the price increase is only by $1. So it will be $86. Not going to bother for a change.

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  • apieceofpie on 30/07/2026 - 16:02

    Swapped to Mercury FibreClassic $49.50 month/12 months. They did make me wait until I was exactly 12 months out of term though haha.

    Sky offered me $55 Fibre Starter/12 months, which is what I was previously on.

    To be honest I didn't often miss the faster speeds when on Sky's 100/25Mbps, I only ever ran into the limit when downloading games and movies. So long as I planned ahead at little bit it wasn't an issue. I expect there's a huge portion of people who are "over subscribed" on their internet speed from what they realistically need.

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    • Alan6984 on 30/07/2026 - 16:05

      I expect there's a huge portion of people who are "over subscribed" on their internet speed from what they realistically need.

      So many people are using WiFi for everything at home, and they are not even on WiFi6, let alone WiFi7, limiting their speeds to far below what they pay for.

      However, it subsidises the rest of us to some degree, and you can't tell them when they already know so much :-P

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      • apieceofpie on 30/07/2026 - 16:19

        However, it subsidises the rest of us to some degree

        Yes definitely, it's for sure taken into account in the pricing models. Mercury didn't even include their 100/25 plan in the half price deal, probably they wouldn't be making any money on it.

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  • nzmax on 08/08/2026 - 01:23

    I have been with Sky for a year and was on their $50 for 12 months 100/20 fibre plan. I see my plan has now jumped up to $65 a month on the latest invoice but they never told me there was any price rise. However they are offering new customers the same plan for $60 ($5 off for signing up for 12 month). Has anyone had any success from their retention team to resign up to a 12 month contract and get a discount? Or is it a case of having to move ISPs.

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    • soupbrain on 08/08/2026 - 13:35

      I am with Sky broadband, the 100/20 plan and was paying $45pm. Realised it was going to jump to $65pm. The best I could get out of them was $60pm so went with that.

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  • nzmax on 12/08/2026 - 14:51

    With fibre plan prices going up, anyone know the current best deals for 100/20 plans? Currently paying $50 a month with sky but it jumps up to $70 next month after the 12 month contract ends as they have just put up their prices again

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    • Dunno on 12/08/2026 - 16:36

      $65/mo cheapest unless you get a supergold discount(-$5) or a sales incentive, the cheapest tend to be no frills(no modem included, limited or no phone support etc). It depends on your needs what you would pick and pay.

      https://contact.co.nz/personal/offer/broadband-offer
      $25 off per month if you have power and bradban for 12month term etc

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    • justaddwater on 26/08/2026 - 14:51

      have you moved yet? on the same boat

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      • nzmax on 26/08/2026 - 22:15

        Got a$5 discount on Sky for 12 months.

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  • Wakrak on 13/08/2026 - 10:52

    I reached out to Fast Connect. Their deals were meh.

    500/100
    Sky - $90/month
    2degrees - $99/month + modem cost

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  • catchthelight on 01/09/2026 - 08:06

    I am finding 100/20 to be plenty of speed for me. The only thing I've noticed is downloading a 1gb file takes a minute or two instead of 20 seconds, which I can live with.

    I effectively got just over two months free on no contract with zeronet. Joined the $8p/w plan with first four weeks free, plus using a referral code got $40 credit, which will cover another 5 weeks. I'm then open to switch to another provider for a better deal, but to be honest I've been very happy with Zeronet so far.

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  • Wakrak on 09/09/2026 - 12:29

    Sky 500/100 currently $80 going up to $85 on 1st October.

    Called this morning to see if they had a downgrade (100/20) retention offer. Bloke said $60 going up to $65 in October (can’t offer discount because already have one on current plan). Said nah.

    Called again at lunch to say that actually, yeah I do want to downgrade. How much? Different bloke said $55 going up to $60 in October. I said yes.

    Change now made but says $50/month because of discount carry over from 500/100 plan. Hopefully just $55/month from October. Happy chappy.

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    • jackvdbuk on 09/09/2026 - 13:31

      similar here. they said no more discount so said i wanted to leave, do i need to give notice? they put me through to someone in Auckland who keenly offered $15 off. back to $50 pm for 12 months.

      Happy days

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    • Royalemasters on 09/09/2026 - 13:51

      Did you stay on the contract (i.e) 1 year from original sign up or sign another 12 months?

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      • Wakrak on 09/09/2026 - 14:09

        Person on phone said it was a continuation of my original plan (February 2026).

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  • Karens Hate Winners on 09/09/2026 - 13:17

    I come back to this thread every now and then to check out the latest fibre deals (not that I'm getting back to fibre, but just curious), and the prices just keep going up and up.

    I honestly don't understand why so many people are still sticking with fibre. People paying for 500 Mbps or gigabit speeds probably aren't actually utilising the full bandwidth most of the time. And chances are, they're not downloading enough data to the point where they even need an unlimited plan either. Unless you have a really good reason to be on fibre, then don't.

    The internet setup I have matches typical fibre plans (550Mbps down / 100 up) and I don't have a data cap either. I've never had problems with this new setup and I'm paying a fraction of what these fibre plans cost.

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    • Everettpsycho on 09/09/2026 - 21:13

      Fibre tends to be the more reliable product that offers low latency for anyone playing games and consistent speeds all the time. Even with peak traffic you rarely see a dip but I did definitely get that when I tried fixed wireless.

      Where I live wireless sucks, rolleston grew, enable built fibre with it, cell networks didn't bother. My spark phone is unusable outside the house and one was marginally better, limiting us to 2degrees.

      Ultimately though I agree, for most people who do most normal things wireless is actually a perfectly fine product. The best advert for it was fibre companies not being able to install quick enough so people got to try it and didn't bother finishing the fibre install once they knew it worked for their needs.

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      • Karens Hate Winners on 09/09/2026 - 21:32

        It depends on a lot of factors. Your router, ethernet cable or wireless NIC, drivers, how congested the wifi signals are, how far away you're from it, etc. Just because you're on fiber, doesn't mean you won't run into latency issues due to some local issues. Most people don't know that, most people probably don't even game constantly and require that level of performance. The majority of users are "dumb" users, they just want internet, that's it.

        Besides, I've never encountered a situation where my friends or myself personally have these issues. My speed is consistent, I run speedtests on a cronjob consistently and there's very little jitter and I have low ping response. I WFH 99% of the time, I'm in a Teams meeting constantly, never had issues. I host a bunch of stuff on my servers at home, barely have any outages due to internet being down. My partner streams Netflix, Crunchyroll and Youtube constantly and she plays games from time to time (so do I) and we never experienced any hiccups.

        On the other hand, my in-laws had been on fibre for a long time, constantly had internet "issues" and turns out it's just the standard crappy router and poor setup. I set them up on 5G in a mesh network and job sorted. When people report issues, I always take it with a grain of salt. It's too generic. Unless I can run tests myself and verify, I'd usually say it's just PEBKAC.

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        • Everettpsycho on 09/09/2026 - 22:25

          I'd say 90% of bad Internet issues are caused beyond the retailers reach. Fibre is good but the ont lives in a corner of the house or a steel box in the garage. People then plug routers in to it and operate on the basis of it must live there. The amount of community board posts of people moaning about it with photos that have a patch panel they aren't using is mad.

          They also then use their wifi to stream netflix to their smart tv that is sat on top of the router, totally avoidable congestion but using a 20cm long wire isn't an option.

          Fixed wireless will have similar issues though, I know near a window, best kine of site possible to the cell tower ensures the best connection then sort the knte ram lan out to maximize it. But I know lots of people who would stick the router behind their tv that's literally a metal case blocking the signal so they can't see it then will complain it's slow. At least in a new build there's usually an ont and patch panel to out the router in the living space, but that is still usually one end of the house. I had to argue with our sparky when we built to install a second cable to our living room and add cables to other rooms so I could cable up a reliable network. He was adament we didn't need it but I use every cable we installed.

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          • ace310 on 09/09/2026 - 23:55

            @Everettpsycho: Exactly this. I have my ont in side a pantry closest in garage. No patch panel and only one cable going out to each room. If I want a wired network without running another wire to different room it is not possible. I lived for 2 years on wireless mesh, eventually gave up. Got sparky to pull few cables out of the closet and put router and ap outside with a switch in closet to get everything wired. Got 2 more wired ap upstairs and it is been solid since.

            Cost cutting or plain ignorance in the new builds is just crazy. Frankly they don't have a clue how network works. Their only goal I think is to put ont somewhere hidden so it doesn't look bad.

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            • mpc on 10/09/2026 - 14:25

              @ace310: That's what you get when most data networks are designed/installed by electricians. Most of them have no idea how to wire a data network well.

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              • Everettpsycho on 10/09/2026 - 17:25

                @mpc: I think it's ignorance more than cost cutting, as I said I argued with our sparky who didn't want to do 2 cables to each room, a real network engineer would do 4.

                I'd be interested to know though, is a home builder offer a t service of a networking person to spec your house and added in cable and access points, would anyone actually take them up on the offer.

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                • mpc on 11/09/2026 - 17:39

                  @Everettpsycho: Every sparky that deals with data should have to go on a basic house networking course. The reality is so much of it is done by electricians and I suspect most developers have a 'preferred' electrician who I probably wouldn't trust anyway. I'm guessing very few networking people can be bothered with houses.

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                  • Everettpsycho on 11/09/2026 - 22:55

                    @mpc: I suspect most people wouldn't want to pay for an expert opinion to solve the issue as part of their build despite it being much better to add cables to sort forever at that stage. Trouble is finding a network expert that doesn't think cat 7 everything 4 times and will recommend something more rational normal people would use.

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    • xsolider on 09/09/2026 - 13:41

      Are you talking about 5G wireless?

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    • ace310 on 09/09/2026 - 13:48

      Not everyone has a decent wireless coverage. Also, location of the router matters for wireless connection and many have invested in their own devices.

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      • Karens Hate Winners on 09/09/2026 - 13:56

        Where there is fibre, there is generally already good 4G/5G coverage around the area. I seen plenty of those cell towers everywhere. Even in slightly rural areas like Pukekohe have good coverage.

        If you can get a good 5G signal on your phone, even just 3/5 bars, then a decent 5G router (can get one cheap for around $80~$100) is enough for most people. I'm talking stable and consistent 500Mbps/100Mbps (depends on the 5G plan you're on).

        I've set this up for myself and various other friends and they don't have any issues.

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