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As we celebrate our first full year of trading as Broadband Compare since our official re-launch on 30th June 2016 we can look back and see the many achievements we have made.  It is this great progress that prompted us to enter the 2017 Westpac Auckland Business Awards.

The inaugural Broadband Compare Awards launch this week in response to the increasingly diversified sector of more than 100 internet providers offering services across the country.

Fibre broadband is much faster than standard broadband, offering download speeds from 30Mbps up to almost 1000Mbps. It is not yet available everywhere as standard broadband, but coverage is growing all the time so you have a good chance of being able to get it.

Latest figures on ultrafast broadband uptake have been released and it seems that New Zealand is loving fibre broadband with over a third of New Zealanders with access to Ultra-Fast Broadband (UFB) now connected.

The team at Broadband Compare are very happy to be highlighted in the #StartUpWatch section of NZ Entrepreneur Magazine!  Read more

Can you get better broadband?  The new Chorus campaign to encourage people to ask for better broadband (askforbetter.co.nz) is music to our ears at Broadband Compare...

Claims by Chorus that it has New Zealand’s top ten cities for fast, fixed line broadband have been questioned by New Zealand’s other three Local Fibre Companies… so where really is the fastest broadband in New Zealand? 

We feel the need... the need for broadband speed!  Latest figures on the fastest internet connections in NZ have been released by Chorus today.