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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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Total: 5.3
Reliability 5.6
Speed 5.7
Support 4.7
Features 5.3
Value 5.0
Average from 182 reviews
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2023-12-08 17:12:57
Jason Xu 5.6
If always need technical support, don't pick 2 Degress, their support is very very very very very shit...... L1 support have no idea what they talking about, only call picker, no IT knowledge at all and not listening customer. If they can't anwser question will let customer wait till to phone cutoff. As 10 years+ work for network admin role, use 2 Degrees network have to understand what is IT, their support for consumer is useless.
Pros
Price, only price
Cons
Customer support is incredible shit.....
2023-12-05 17:32:18
Alex Bryant 2.2
In July, 2degrees made a change which broke my VDSL internet entirely. After several calls and several pieces of bad advice we were finally able to get it working again. However, our download speeds had dropped from a consistent 125 Mbps to 40 Mbps. Several more emails and calls over the coming months lead nowhere except to the same confused and incorrect advice from their end. Eventually, the speeds began frequently declining to 20 Mbps, then ultimately 10 Mbps. We procured a second 2degrees FritzBox on our own and factory reset it - still the same terrible speeds. Eventually after 6 months of putting this off I've switched to Voyager and my speeds have instantly returned to 100 Mbps~ using the same router. No one at their end cares in the slightest, they couldn't even feign concern or muster any effort whatsoever throughout this entire process. 2degrees is a terrible company that I will never deal with ever again. ...read more
Pros
Absolutely none
Cons
Terrible customer support, terrible outadated documentation, absolute zero care for their customers
2023-11-10 15:20:55
Sashen Govender 1.2
Be cautious when moving properties, I followed the processes via their website & they ended up downgrading my line. After logging a ticket on their website & waiting 3 days with no feedback, I decided to call in. Now I must wait another 3 days for them to move me to my correct plan. The communication is absolutely horrible & wait times when calling in are insane. Unless you are calling about new sales, then they answer very quickly. The company seems to be run by front line staff, no escalations. ...read more
Pros
Price
Cons
Communication, website design, wait times, customer service
2023-10-25 12:17:31
Neil 4.8
Don't use them if you want to get any support because their customer service is TERRIBLE! Email often takes weeks to receive a reply.
Luckily, the broadband itself is quite reliable.
Pros
Broadband is reliable and speed meets the describe
Cons
Customer service is awful
2023-10-14 17:07:26
Dee 1.8
Avoid at all costs.

It takes up to two hours to get to the support on the phone. If they won't drop your call in a middle, as they really like to do. Give them a call if you don't believe it can be that bad.

Two degrees can just decide to cut your connection off with no reason or warning because of some internal migration. Moving house was a disaster, they kept losing my details, some overseas support person just did not log a ticket in their system, or something. I spent almost two month without internet and they kept charging me full price. ...read more
Pros
There is no pros
Cons
No customer support, unfair charges
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