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esawers
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  #3419264 27-Sep-2025 17:34
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Chch based, I was on Vodafone and my partner had a business plan with Spark. Vodafone was more reliable in most areas of Christchurch, sometimes he would need to use my phone to return a business call if we were out of the CBD. 
now we are both on Spark Business plans, the kids have better reception than us on 2Degrees 



grantius
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  #3419274 27-Sep-2025 18:26
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ajw:

 

Aucklandjafa:

 

Few people frothing One, it definitely comes down to location, whist One’s coverage is much better in the far north and East Cape, I’ve personally found Spark to be for consistently solid everywhere else - especially in the Wairarapa and Otago.

 

My two cents is Spark’s already started to reframe their U850 3g frequency to 5g, so once their 3G network’s turned off in March they’ll have a pretty robust 5g footprint - technically will be greater than the other 2 until they both start reframing their respective U700 4g frequencies.

 

 

 

 

Do current phones have the chipset to receive this band in 5G.

 

 

 

 

Yes if the phone supports n5 - which is most of the common phones newer than initial 5g phones which may only support n78 here

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