Spark Hyperfibre offering?

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#324879 7-Jun-2026 00:30

Now that Enable are offering LFC hyperfibre to residential greater CHC, does anyone have any intel on the availability, price-point and timeline for an ISP hyperfibre offering from Spark?

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#3500924 7-Jun-2026 10:14

Given they don't offer hyper fibre on the Chorus network, i doubt you will see anything on Enable.

Hyper fibre is still a boutique product so you will need to find an ISP that supports it.

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#3501082 7-Jun-2026 18:20

?? The Enable web site and various ISP say it's now, as of 2 June, available at our address ... but nothing on the Spark web site.

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#3501083 7-Jun-2026 18:27

@AndyT you are not following. yes hyperfibre is available now but Spark dont offer residential hyperfibre at all on any network. Be it via enable, chorus, tuatahi fibre.

You need to change ISP's to one that does sell it on the enable network

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#3501084 7-Jun-2026 18:29

AndyT:

?? The Enable web site and various ISP say it's now, as of 2 June, available at our address ... but nothing on the Spark web site.

Just because the Fibre company has it as an offering, doesn't mean the ISP will. I don't believe Spark have Hyperfibre on their immediate radar.

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#3501089 7-Jun-2026 19:11

@AndyT Simple you need Hyperfibre from a ISP that offers it not all retailers do!

Do you even need Hyperfibre? I bet you actually don't need it

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#3501154 7-Jun-2026 21:37

"... you are not following ...." I think I was / I am following. My position is that I'm moving house and have options on the next ISP. I've been with Spark for 20 years +++ and would prefer to stay with them, but if they don't have 2GBE on their radar I might try an alternative ISP that does, e.g. Quic. So I was sounding out GZ for intel on Spark's roadmap.

As to needing hyperfibre, the answer is of course not, there is no strict use case in a domestic scenario; but that's analogous to the argument that flying Concorde was unnecessary when you could fly cattle class at far less expense. The service is there for those that want it (but don't technically need it) for whatever reason. And given that I have a 2.5GBE Gateway, switches and access points, I'm interested in trying it out.

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#3501155 7-Jun-2026 21:38

To be perfectly honest those who need Hyperfibre would have already done so via another ISP.

For the majority of people 500/100Mbit is more than enough and if you're only using WiFi, don't have a homelab (as in servers hosted at home) and don't have any devices that could take up or benefit from Hyperfibre speeds then you simply don't need it and you're better to save your money.

I'm even on 2Gbit Hyperfibre myself and do not need it at all.

Spark do not offer Hyperfibre at all. If you wanted to get Hyperfibre then you'll need to join an ISP that supports it.

Edit: Per your previous message I'm not saying there is any harm in trying it out! Like I say I don't even need it myself but you'll need to via another ISP. Spark are not loyal to you, and there are plenty of great ISP's out there to try out too.

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#3501156 7-Jun-2026 21:47

AndyT:

"... you are not following ...." I think I was / I am following. My position is that I'm moving house and have options on the next ISP. I've been with Spark for 20 years +++ and would prefer to stay with them, but if they don't have 2GBE on their radar I might try an alternative ISP that does, e.g. Quic. So I was sounding out GZ for intel on Spark's roadmap.

As to needing hyperfibre, the answer is of course not, there is no strict use case in a domestic scenario; but that's analogous to the argument that flying Concorde was unnecessary when you could fly cattle class at far less expense. The service is there for those that want it (but don't technically need it) for whatever reason. And given that I have a 2.5GBE Gateway, switches and access points, I'm interested in trying it out.

Look for a different ISP, as its unlikely spark will have something for you in the short to medium term.

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#3501161 7-Jun-2026 23:50

Going by the Spark price increase comms they are upgrading their end to enable it.

Can't help but think it would less wasteful in these times of high IT/network equipment costs if Hyperfibre was just allowed to be made layer 3.

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#3501170 8-Jun-2026 07:54

I looked into Hyperfibre for one of our offices, was surprised to see none of the big players had it on offer... dug into it, and its basically looked like it just wasn't worth it for them. Only a small group of customers would use it, but the infrastructure/support for it would cost more than the profit.

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#3501179 8-Jun-2026 08:17

I have only ever seen one actual use case for hyper fibre

Student flat seven people with 2gbps HF connection all computers wired via ethernet, all download / gaming etc

No one person can take more than 1gbps other than that, there is really no use case for it

Maybe a video editing company uploading TBs of large video files but the remote endpoint has to support it also

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#3501184 8-Jun-2026 08:32

nztim:

I have only ever seen one actual use case for hyper fibre

Student flat seven people with 2gbps HF connection all computers wired via ethernet, all download / gaming etc

No one person can take more than 1gbps other than that, there is really no use case for it

Maybe a video editing company uploading TBs of large video files but the remote endpoint has to support it also

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#3501187 8-Jun-2026 08:40

xpd:

That will definitely be pinned for future reference 😉