A row has flared up again over Spark's attempts to encourage broadband customers on to its own wireless network, and off Chorus' copper broadband network which Spark resells. 

 

Network company Chorus paid for broadband testing company TrueNet to install Spark Wireless Broadband in 40 homes, half of which were in Auckland, explaining it wanted to see how Chorus' products "stacked up against the competition".

 

TrueNet managing director John Butt said its study indicated the performance of Spark Wireless Broadband varied considerably, often by time of day, and was "more comparable" to slower copper broadband connections and "considerably slower" than the fastest type of copper connection, VDSL.

 

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