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#315172 19-Jun-2024 09:19

Just received.

Hi there,

Your plan price is going up
While we do what we can to keep price increases to a minimum, we’re adjusting the price of some of our plans from 1 August 2024 to reflect increases in our operating costs. You can find the details of these changes below.

To help with this change, we’ve outlined some options for you to consider. Otherwise, look out for the new price from your August bill onwards. Note, any new connections you’ve recently signed up for are included in this change.

The $90 endless plan seems to be going up to $92.

I make use of Spotify so it's still cheaper than One plus paying for Spotify... But 2degrees half price offer is slightly tempting.

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#3250788 19-Jun-2024 12:25

I should be so lucky as you. I'm on the "Essential Fibre Plus with Landline" plan and I am looking at an $8 increase. Starting to grate on me given the recent decision to begin charging for email services, and especially so when I have no end of trouble logging into web-mail with them now.

Each time I am required to log in twice. The first time I enter username and password and am told I have logged in, only to be returned to the log in screen again and have to enter my details a second time.

Time to consider other options in the market I think.

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#3250791 19-Jun-2024 12:50

thermonuclear:

I should be so lucky as you. I'm on the "Essential Fibre Plus with Landline" plan and I am looking at an $8 increase.

According to sparks website its going up by $5 so that will be $106 with Landline

This will be in line with the LFC price increases

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#3250825 19-Jun-2024 14:28

Also, Netfilx Premium via Spark goes up 0.50 Pacific pesos.

Spark Max Fibre using Mikrotik CCR1009-8G-1S-1S+, CRS125-24G-1S, Unifi UAP, U6-Pro, UAP-AC-M-Pro, Apple TV 4K (2022), Apple TV 4K (2017), iPad Air 1st gen, iPad Air 4th gen, iPhone 13, SkyNZ3151 (the white box). If it doesn't move then it's data cabled.

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#3250916 19-Jun-2024 18:15

Hi NZTim - re Thermonuclear comment

The $5 increase is only for the Essential fibre. You have to click on the "Plans with Benefits"
You will see the Essential Fibre PLUS is going up $8 same as Max Fibre Plus.
Trying to figure out what the change might be as I get the $10 phone line added but a $4.95 credit for unused Mcafee.

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#3251478 21-Jun-2024 09:40

Yep just received the happy Solstice email this morning. Our Max Fibre Plus with LandLine going up by $8/m.

Our last Spark bill for all our communications requirements of $204 pushed us over the edge so last week had online chat and phone chat with them to see if they can offer us a better deal on either UFB or and mobile, particularly mobile, but no they were not going to budge on anything!

On Monday we decided to move away from Spark Mobile $45 Endless plan and churn over to Mercury's 2.5GB ROLLOVER+ DATA

Once that is all settled in we will revisit the broadband side of things. The problem being will be, do we go away from spark altogether as we have 5 email addresses and a gazillion companies and family and friends who have these. So it will more than likely be a decrease in speed whilst still retaining email and Netflix.

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#3251539 21-Jun-2024 10:04

FineWine:

The problem being will be, do we go away from spark altogether as we have 5 email addresses and a gazillion companies and family and friends who have these.

Even if you stay with Spark, start the migration process now you are paying for email addresses that you can get for free for the likes of outlook.com or gmail.com

Also why not consider a domain name? then you are completely free of any ISP or Mail Provider

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#3251605 21-Jun-2024 13:10

nztim: you are paying for email addresses that you can get for free for the likes of outlook.com or gmail.com

Dunno about that - there's an increasing number of people hitting the 15 GB threshold they may find themselves in the same situation of needing to pay with Outlook/Gmail... uncompressed text and email headers can take up a lot of space... even a Geekzone notification is just under 50 kB each and 80% of that is headers...

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#3251628 21-Jun-2024 14:58

yitz:

Dunno about that - there's an increasing number of people hitting the 15 GB threshold they may find themselves in the same situation of needing to pay with Outlook/Gmail...

Mailboxes shouldn't be permanent storage, 15GB is plenty

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#3251629 21-Jun-2024 14:59

While Chorus won't reprice their LFC charges until Jan 'Jan 2025, Enable have proposed upping most of their LFC charges by 4% from 1 August 24

https://www.enable.net.nz/assets/Corporate-Publications/Enable-Indicative-Price-Changes-Aug-24.pdf

So I'm guessing Spark are "Reading the Wind" on where Chorus is heading (its a regulated monopoly) and upping their's across all their customers, - while Spark appear to be the first, the others are eventually going to follow....

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#3251637 21-Jun-2024 15:30

wellygary:

While Chorus won't reprice their LFC charges until Jan 'Jan 2025, Enable have proposed upping most of their LFC charges by 4% from 1 August 24

https://www.enable.net.nz/assets/Corporate-Publications/Enable-Indicative-Price-Changes-Aug-24.pdf

So I'm guessing Spark are "Reading the Wind" on where Chorus is heading (its a regulated monopoly) and upping their's across all their customers, - while Spark appear to be the first, the others are eventually going to follow....

Doesn't really explain their post-post mobile increase, especially as they only increased them 7-8 months ago

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#3251644 21-Jun-2024 15:42

I just got my email as well outlining the $8 increase.

I guess I'll just churn back to Skinny yet again for another year, and at least I'll get a free month. Every little helps these days.

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#3251646 21-Jun-2024 15:49

nztim:

yitz:

Dunno about that - there's an increasing number of people hitting the 15 GB threshold they may find themselves in the same situation of needing to pay with Outlook/Gmail...

Mailboxes shouldn't be permanent storage, 15GB is plenty

Although I do pay for Google One so I have up to 200GB in total of anything (incl email)

But also sorry Spark > gone back to 2degrees on an eSIM too. They were a little hesitant to do it on a Oneplus 12 but hey it works.

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#3251696 21-Jun-2024 16:03

My current plan with $6 standard Netflix is:

Max Fibre Plus with Land Line $112 + $10 + $8 = $130 for ⬆️903Mbps & ⬇️517Mbps

(my current true consistent speeds https://www.speedtest.net/my-result/d/665292653)

The only other $6 standard Netflix included plan is:

Essential Fibre Plus with Land Line at $97 + $10 + $8 = $115 for ⬆️316Mbps & ⬇️109Mbps

$15 difference for quite a drop in speed. I do not really want to loose my current speeds as I enjoy great uninterrupted movie downloads and viewing.

NOTE: Netflix plans increase by 0.50c from 1st August

Whilst the difficult we can do immediately, the impossible takes a bit longer. However, miracles you will have to wait for.

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#3251698 21-Jun-2024 16:10

FineWine:

... Essential Fibre Plus with Land Line at $97 + $10 + $8 = $115 for ⬆️316Mbps & ⬇️109Mbps... I do not really want to loose my current speeds as I enjoy great uninterrupted movie downloads and viewing.

But a 4K stream is about 25 Mbps... If you're streaming video there should be no difference between a 300 Mbps connection and a 900 Mbps connection.

My referral links: BigPipe | Mercury

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#3251703 21-Jun-2024 16:25

That is quite a jump, and it doesn't seem like that long ago the price was increased.

I'd be okay about changing providers, but last time I did that (from Spark to Voyager) things went south with the latter after about 1.5 months. In this day and age of working from home I can't really afford to have a connection simply not work. Yes, Voyager were very helpful trying to sort it, but it was still a lot of hassle that I could have done without. Plus what router do they use these days? Is it still the Huawei one?

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