Press release:

 

2degrees today announced that it is acquiring the MyRepublic New Zealand broadband base and will ensure continuity of services to its customers, as MyRepublic exits the New Zealand broadband market. 

 

Preparations for the migration of MyRepublic’s customers to 2degrees will start over the coming weeks and customers will be kept fully informed of the process.   

 

2degrees CEO Mark Callander says MyRepublic customers will find a good home with 2degrees.  

 

“We believe MyRepublic customers will be very happy with the service and look forward to welcoming them to 2degrees. The companies share a similar challenger ethos, a focus on customer service, and have been at the forefront of delivering fibre and Hyperfibre services in New Zealand for many years.”

 

With MyRepublic having communicated the change to customers today, Callander said the migrations to 2degrees will happen over a two-month period commencing in August.

 

Callander said welcoming these customers to 2degrees fits with its overall growth strategy, as the company continues to be one of the leading challenger brands in the market.

 

“We have been working with MyRepublic to make this transfer as seamless as possible for customers. As a business, we have done a few of these now so we know how important it is to focus on the customers and ensure their services are uninterrupted.”

 

Malcolm Rodrigues, Group CEO and co-founder of MyRepublic said the telco decided to exit the New Zealand broadband market after almost nine years in order to focus on its Asia business. 

 

“I love our New Zealand business. The amazing work that the team has done for MyRepublic over nearly nine years has been a personal point of pride for me, with a number of industry firsts to shake up the NZ broadband market. After much deliberation however, we have decided to focus on our Singaporean business.  

 

“We are thankful for all the support our customers in New Zealand have shown us. With 2degrees’ network infrastructure and scale of operations, we are confident that customers transitioning will be in good hands.”    

 

Hope 2d will not mess up my static ip. lol

Urgh. Just went through the painful process of migrating to My Republic from Spark (to save money and have theoption of Hyperfibre). As always the Chorus order was messed up and we were without internet for two and a half days. Then they messed up billing, and we have had spot outages several times in a few weeks. I have a complaint in with the TDR. Now this.

squareeyes123:

 

Urgh. Just went through the painful process of migrating to My Republic from Spark (to save money and have theoption of Hyperfibre). As always the Chorus order was messed up and we were without internet for two and a half days. Then they messed up billing, and we have had spot outages several times in a few weeks. I have a complaint in with the TDR. Now this.

 

Think of the benefits, you will get IPV6. 🤣

eong:

 

Hope 2d will not mess up my static ip. lol

 

Your static will remain with the same IP address.

squareeyes123:

 

[snip]As always the Chorus order was messed up and we were without internet for two and a half days. 

 

I hardly think this is true. There must be hundreds, if not thousands of moves per day and I doubt very much they are all messed up.

right, so that text message was legit.

Hope my BB bill doesn't go up!

So farewell My Republic. Hopefully 2degrees do a better job than they did, support-wise at least.

If I read that right, My Republic will continue to do mobile in NZ, just not broadband?

One part that bothers me. 2D gets all of us as customers through the back door.

We miss out on any new sign up deals that they offer their 'new customers'

Probably worth instead signing up directly prior to the shift

(assuming you wish to be with 2D in the first instance)

@HeretiK Nothing stopping you from just moving across ahead of time. Just note if you've got a static IP you'll lose this.

Great news to see MR exit the NZ market

Linux:

 

Great news to see MR exit the NZ market

 

Less competition is great to see... wait, what?

boosacnoodle:

 

Linux:

 

Great news to see MR exit the NZ market

 

 

Less competition is great to see... wait, what?

 

@boosacnoodle I would normally not agree with this but no issue with 2d taking over MR

boosacnoodle:

 

Linux:

 

Great news to see MR exit the NZ market

 

 

Less competition is great to see... wait, what?

 

A player with a poor reputation being bought out by a better one is great to see.

quickymart:

 

A player with a poor reputation being bought out by a better one is great to see.

 

Ehh 2d's reputation isn't nearly as good as it used to be.