Vodafone will begin offering free broadband from Monday 13 August.
The offer requires customers sign up for 12 months:
Customers swap their home phone number from whoever they're with to Vodafone;
Customers take up $20 national toll call package ($20/month for unlimited number of calls to NZ landlines with each call duration of up to 2 hours);
Customers receive Broadband1 free.
Broadband1 consists of full speed download/128kbit/s upload and 1GB of data per month (exceed that and you're limited to 64kbit/s for the rest of the month).
The good news is that the discount applies to higher-usage broadband plans as well - so 5GB/month will cost $10/month.
We'll even call Telecom for you and tell them you're swapping your phone number to Vodafone.
This isn't a cellular service - this is fixed line delivered over Telecom's DSL-based copper network.
It's not limited to the first 5,000 customers or to customers living in a particular town... anyone in NZ can apply.
Cheers,
Paul