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#3421597 4-Oct-2025 18:11

Just looked at my latest bill for HFC ... $71.99.

If one accepts the Fibre Everday plan, then the speed is halved and price up by $14 ... hmmmm.

My mobile was recently increased by $5 too.

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#3421599 4-Oct-2025 18:31

Rickles:

Just looked at my latest bill for HFC ... $71.99.

Have they contacted you as well to advise of the shutdown?

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#3421601 4-Oct-2025 18:46

>Have they contacted you as well to advise of the shutdown?<

No ... I'm in Thorndon, Wellington, so could be some time if they work through from low density areas.

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#3421604 4-Oct-2025 19:22

quickymart:

A small island of pink at an individual address is a custom install so basically they have paid to connect. This is quite common for rural schools around the country.

I have written about the custom install process in this thread but the upshot is Chorus no longer offer these for non-business addresses. I don't know if its an option with Enable.

What could be an option now is if 3 or more neighbours got together on a Community Co-funded install however this does incur costs and a 5-figure amount per address is not unlikely.

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#3421606 4-Oct-2025 19:30

I don't think that's the case with Pegasus. This is a small cluster of fibre connected addresses - about 77 of them as Wheelbarrow said earlier in the thread - surrounded by people on cable. I doubt that many would have chipped in for a custom install; you'll find that more likely (for some reason) the developer connected these people to fibre, but everyone else could only get cable.

As for the community option, as this area is currently served by Vodafone/One cable, I would hazard a guess it will be a case of wait-and-see what they do for them first. Otherwise, (all of) Pegasus might finally get fibre as part of a rollout.

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#3421607 4-Oct-2025 19:33

quickymart:

I don't think that's the case with Pegasus. This is a small cluster of fibre connected addresses - quite a number of them as someone said earlier in the thread - surrounded by people on cable. I doubt that many would have chipped in for a custom install; more likely (for some reason) the developer connected these people to fibre, but everyone else could only get cable.

Yeah, you are right. Somebody said it was a school but now you mention it I have looked closer and its a couple of blocks.

Moving forward its my opinion if they don't want something like FWA or Starlink they should get together and pay for it. If they co-operate it may be a reasonable price because there is already UFB network in the area.

But unfortunately as is often the case most people will expect it for free because others got it for free. This is what I encountered when trying to drum up support for UFB in our area.

The cold hard reality is Chorus made a loss of 9 million in 2024 and a net profit of only 4 million in 2025. This is very low for a over billion dollar revenue.

So a further bunch of rollouts are not guaranteed unless the government funds their Fibre for 95% of Kiwis proposal or Enable decides its worth it which I think is unlikely.

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#3421677 4-Oct-2025 23:46

One NZ’s website now states (if you enter in a copper-only address):

One NZ no longer offers copper broadband, but you can get fast reliable copper broadband through our sister company, Farmside.

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#3421786 5-Oct-2025 17:28

There is actually much more fibre in Pegasus than the map shows. Most of the later stages in the subdivision have OneNZ fibre instead of HFC even though it doesn't show on the map. I believe it's a small, jury rigged setup where for the first few years customers weren't even getting charged for it as OneNZ had no systems in place to facilitate this. That may have changed by now.

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#3422016 6-Oct-2025 09:44

MichaelNZ:

quickymart:

I don't think that's the case with Pegasus. This is a small cluster of fibre connected addresses - quite a number of them as someone said earlier in the thread - surrounded by people on cable. I doubt that many would have chipped in for a custom install; more likely (for some reason) the developer connected these people to fibre, but everyone else could only get cable.

Yeah, you are right. Somebody said it was a school but now you mention it I have looked closer and its a couple of blocks.

Moving forward its my opinion if they don't want something like FWA or Starlink they should get together and pay for it. If they co-operate it may be a reasonable price because there is already UFB network in the area.

But unfortunately as is often the case most people will expect it for free because others got it for free. This is what I encountered when trying to drum up support for UFB in our area.

The cold hard reality is Chorus made a loss of 9 million in 2024 and a net profit of only 4 million in 2025. This is very low for a over billion dollar revenue.

So a further bunch of rollouts are not guaranteed unless the government funds their Fibre for 95% of Kiwis proposal or Enable decides its worth it which I think is unlikely.

Oh no... only a $4 million profit, that's terrible! /s

I think public utilities like broadband infrastructure doesn't necessarily need to make a profit.

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#3422061 6-Oct-2025 11:08

Rickles:

>Have they contacted you as well to advise of the shutdown?<

No ... I'm in Thorndon, Wellington, so could be some time if they work through from low density areas.

one.nz are shutting down cable here in stokes valley by 8 December 2025 have booked a install myself for this Friday and jumping to Sky broadband as the retailer.

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#3422065 6-Oct-2025 11:18

>one.nz are shutting down cable here in stokes valley by 8 December 2025 <

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#3422067 6-Oct-2025 11:22

Rickles:

>one.nz are shutting down cable here in stokes valley by 8 December 2025 <

Wonderful Xmas present for us all 😒

info on the shutdown line is 0800787251.

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#3422070 6-Oct-2025 11:27

MichaelNZ:

The cold hard reality is Chorus made a loss of 9 million in 2024 and a net profit of only 4 million in 2025. This is very low for a over billion dollar revenue.

So a further bunch of rollouts are not guaranteed unless the government funds their Fibre for 95% of Kiwis proposal or Enable decides its worth it which I think is unlikely.

Chorus is making around $700 million annual EDITA, ( off $1b in revenue).. its a cash machine.

Its busy depreciating its copper assets to zero, before it writes them off entirely in the next few years,

As interest rates fall ifs financing becomes cheaper,

If Chorus was in trouble it wouldn't be upping its dividends

Investors seem reasonably confident

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#3423787 10-Oct-2025 22:58

TelcoTechDude:

There is actually much more fibre in Pegasus than the map shows. Most of the later stages in the subdivision have OneNZ fibre instead of HFC even though it doesn't show on the map. I believe it's a small, jury rigged setup where for the first few years customers weren't even getting charged for it as OneNZ had no systems in place to facilitate this. That may have changed by now.

Anything confirmed on what's happening in Pegasus (does anyone live there and is on Geekzone)?

I'm wondering if the whole place is getting fibre now, or do they all have to move to wireless, or...?

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#3424171 11-Oct-2025 20:10

Elderly couple with HFC got a call from Sky who offered them broadband for $60. They rang me as got nervous thinking it was a scam call and didn’t go any further. Anyone else been contacted?

We have not heard from One NZ officially about the closure yet and wondering if it would be wise just to find another provider now or wait.

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