Slingshot purchases Woosh customer base
Slingshot has purchased 9,000 Woosh customer, billed as a “natural addition” to the company’s existing business.
Slingshot has purchased 9,000 Woosh customer, billed as a “natural addition” to the company’s existing business.
“It’s all about putting your customers first and giving them great value and great quality products."
"Efforts to undermine competition like this aren't innovation: they are just trying to reduce our choices."
Netflix is heading down under, announcing today it will expand into Australia and New Zealand in March 2015.
Slingshot customers can now pay their broadband bill with Bitcoin.
Broadband provider Slingshot has opened up access to global video streaming sites for its customers.
CallPlus Group has purchased ISP Orcon in a deal that will become final on the 1st of July.
If you are moving house, Slingshot is guaranteeing your internet will be ready to go by the time you move in.
In the Auckland District Court yesterday, Callplus Services Limited (trading as Slingshot) pleaded guilty to 50 breaches of the Fair Trading Act in relation to the marketing of its telecommunications services, under charges brought by the Commerce Commission.
Slingshot, the Kiwi-owned broadband provider, and cloud storage provider Mega, have formed a partnership by which all Slingshot broadband customers will be offered a free MEGA Pro 1 account (valued at $160) for a full year with 500GB of online storage.
Telecom has acknowledged a possible fraudulent use of login details, which may have allowed a telesales company access to a database containing more than 2.1 million customer names.
Unbundled plans - that is a broadband service from an ISP that has put in its own equipment into an exchange - provide web browsing speeds that are faster than plans from Telecom Wholesale, according to a Commerce Commission audit of broadband from January to June 2010, released today.
While Vodafone and Orcon are stalling on nationwide local loop unbundling, CallPlus is taking the first steps to service customers directly over copper – in Hamilton.
Vodafone and Slingshot are agreeing to hold wholesale hands whilst kicking each other competitively under the table.
While Australians are shifting to Naked DSL at a rate of knots, what should be a “killer” service is limping in New Zealand due to the high cost of backhaul.