Flexible broadband plans

All Lightwire Rural Fixed Wireless Broadband plans are flexible, meaning you can change your plan at any time.

Not sure how much data you need?

Don’t know how much data you need? That’s okay, you can change your plan after you sign up without penalty via your customer portal. Move to a higher or lower data plan at any time with the click of a button.

 

Learn more about Lightwire’s rural broadband plans & NZ rural internet pricing here.

You’re never locked into 1 plan

Your data requirements can change month to month, that’s why we make sure you can easily switch between plans to match your data needs by logging into your customer portal.

 

Plan upgrades take immediate effect, meaning you will avoid any further additional data charges from your previous plan. Downgrades will take effect from the 1st day of the following month.

 

Log into the Lightwire customer portal to see how much data you use and to change your rural broadband plan.

Add unlimited calls

Unlimited calling to New Zealand and Australian landlines and mobiles for $19.95/month.

 

No more variable charges for calls to friends and family in Australia and NZ, with Lightwire’s unlimited calling offer, you can talk as much as want.

 

You just need to plug in your analogue phone to the router we provide.

Lightwire Rural Broadband Internet Pricing - Unlimited off-peak data on all broadband plans in Rural Waikato & Bay Of Plenty Regions of New Zealand.

Unlimited off-peak data

Our plans include an on-peak data allowance, and unlimited data during off-peak times. On-peak runs from 8 AM to midnight and off-peak runs from midnight to 8 AM.

 

Downloads and uploads contribute to your data consumption, so it is a good idea to schedule backups to run after midnight, and the same goes for large software updates. Downloading of large files for future use should, where possible, also be scheduled for after midnight.

8,000+ Rural New Zealand Households already do more from here

Half of our customers rate their experience with Lightwire as 10 out of 10. In our most recent rural survey, 2,269 respondents gave us an average rating of 8.7.

 

Every month, 25% of our new customers join us as the result of a friend or relative referring them.

Garry Johnston
Previously with Vodafone
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Recommended a rural friend to shift to Lightwire Broadband. Their experience - Installed smoothly and promptly. Great communication. Happy broadband users, streaming without worry for the first time in ages. They have already made a referral to their Neighbour.
Darrin Knowles
Previously with TrustPower
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From 5Mbps with TrustPower to 65Mbps with Lightwire. And all at the same price! Now I just have to manage my data to 300mb/month . . .
Carl Dawson
Previously with FullFlavor
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The team at Lightwire provide such a fantastic service. We recently moved to the Western BOP, and needed high speed reliable connectivity to be able to work effectively from home (Zoom, Teams meetings etc). When our existing DSL service was failing, through a neighbours referral we got onto Lightwire, called and had everything underway within a week.

We leveraged the express install service which was worth the money for my situation and the experience from the initial call through to the installation team was amazing. The installer even helped move some existing cabling around for me to put additional wireless access points into our house to ensure strong signal. Couldn't be happier and have since referred them to our other neighbours. Thanks very much!
Jim
Previously with Vodafone
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Awesome Provider been with these guys before. Although only 1 week into it, so far so good. Safe to say the speeds are faster than what we were on which was 4G. Almost Fibre speeds, and even under peak times, the speed still maintains at a good rate.

A rough average of what we get is around 40mbps, with max up to 75mbps and a min of 20mbps. See attached photo for reference. Good pings as well, so if you're a regular gamer like me, then you shouldn't have any trouble. Same with latency as well, which is also good. I noticed a drop in ping since shifting from 4G. Which was a plus, and obviously lets not forget that you have more data to play with compared to the capped and limited GB from 4G. But yea Overall, everything is up to the mark! touch wood. haha
Dan Robertson
Previously with Spark
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Great customer service. Switched from Spark 4g to Lightwire and straight away have noticed the difference in speed. They also added me to a promo plan so for the first 3 months I'm getting almost 8 times the bandwidth at a lower cost than I was with Spark...It's a no brainer if you're thinking on making the switch.
Delwyn Stewart
Now living in the city
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Considering we lived just under a hour out of town, the speed is extremely fast. Now living in the city under a different provider I am appalled that my internet was faster out in the sticks. Thanks you Lightwire 🙂
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Frequently Asked Questions

In designing our plans, we have tried to find a balance between ensuring our costs are covered and keeping your costs as low as possible.

When it comes to installation, we need to install a dish on your roof that will point at a tower on a nearby hill and install a WiFi router. All of this is done by a Lightwire engineer.

If you sign a 12-month term, we do all of this for free.

When you sign up to a plan but the installation is not successful due to no line of sight existing between your house and one of our towers (or some other issue that makes service impossible to provide), no early termination fees or charges of any kind will apply.

 

On average, our customers stay with us for more than 4.5 years, but if you are wanting to leave Lightwire for whatever reason, your connection will be disconnected on the last day of the month in which your request is received.

 

If your service is still in term when you cancel it, an early termination fee (ETC) will apply. ETC calculations are as follows:

 

  • Monthly fixed charge multiplied by full months left in term, with a maximum charge of $790 incl.

Lightwire gives you unparalleled flexibility. Regardless of which plan you sign up to, you can upgrade or downgrade that plan at any time without penalty. This is done via your customer portal.

 

Upgrades take effect immediately, and plan downgrades take effect at the start of the following month.

Your internet speeds and service uptime are our top priority.

What’s more, online sign-up is easy.

 

You’ve made a great decision to live rurally in the beautiful New Zealand countryside. Make another.

 

Let’s connect.

Need help deciding what plan is best for you?

Chat with us

Our friendly experts can answer any of your rural connectivity questions. 

 

Ask away

give us a call

On average you’ll get a wireless broadband specialist on the phone in less than 2 minutes.

 

0800 12 13 14

email us

Not in a rush? Shoot us an email and we’ll be in touch as soon as possible.

 

sales@lightwire.co.nz