Fibre Providers

If you want to install a fibre Internet connection in your house or workplace, you need to sign a contract with an Internet provider. Different internet providers offer different services, so it’s important to know all the best options before making your choice. Take a look at the best fibre Internet providers in New Zealand. You can use the tools on this page to filter data allowance, speeds, contract length and ratings.

What is a fibre connection?

The best solution for a fast and stable Internet connection at home, home office, or workplace is a fibre connection.

Fiber connection is a data connection carried by a physical cable made of optical fibre. Optical fibre is a type of cable made from thin glass and plastic fibres through which data can travel as light pulses. You may have heard that nothing is faster than light: when data travel through light pulses, they can reach the highest speed, that’s why an optical fibre connection is the fastest you can have.

What are the main advantages of fibre Internet connection?

1. Speed

One of the main advantages of a fibre Internet connection is speed. It’s faster than any other technology we have at our disposal today, with the single exception of 5G. However, 5G isn’t available everywhere, while optical fibre infrastructures are reaching every corner of the country.

Having a fast connection means that you can browse the Internet more comfortably, watch Netflix without having to wait for the episode to load, and download films in less than a minute… What can make the real difference, however, is the upload speed.

Whenever you need to send an email, an attached file, or upload content on your internet platform is your Internet upload speed the parameter that tells how long it is going to take to do it. With the old ADSL connection, it could take ours to upload a video on YouTube; with a fibre Internet connection, it’d take a couple of minutes.

2. Stability

The main advantage of fibre internet connection when compared to 5G (the only technology faster than fibre) is stability. Since data travel via cable, there is no external factor that could slow down the speed. The only factor that could cause a malfunction is a cable being damaged or cut. Storms, bad weather, wind, or any other factor can’t affect your Internet connection speed and stability, while 4G, 5G, and satellite connections are all affected by such factors.

3. Multiple devices

Since we all have multiple devices in our homes it’s always important to know how many of them you can connect simultaneously. With a fibre Internet connection you can forget about this issue: you can connect as many devices as you want: the speed would decrease, but it’d still be so fast that you won’t notice it.