Media Release
16 October 2012
Slingshot Speeds Ahead Of The Rest
Slingshot’s Broadband services have been named amongst the best in New Zealand in the latest Truenet broadband speed
tests.
Independent testing from the broadband monitoring company has shown that both Slingshot’s capped and unlimited broadband
services are now amongst the fastest in the country. The results show across the board improvements in both surfing and
speed consistency.
Slingshot General Manager Scott Page says that sizeable investments by the company in network efficiency and performance
have paid off for Slingshot customers and have allowed the ISP to compete heavily on performance with some of their
larger competitors like Vodafone, Telecom and TelstraClear.
“As part of our customer-centric approach we’ve invested a large amount of resource into improving bandwidth and caching
on the Slingshot network. Basically this means a consistently faster and more reliable service for our customers.”
The Truenet results have highlighted Slingshots ongoing commitment to improving their user experience and providing the
best value homeline and broadband services in New Zealand.
Slingshot is not only leading innovation in the NZ market, but proving it can tackle the larger providers by offering
consumers faster broadband at even cheaper prices. This aligns with the company ethos of always challenging the status
quo and using innovation to bring home grown Kiwi products to households across the country.
Page believes the recent results are indicative of Slingshot’s forward thinking attitude toward both customers and
products.
“We want to provide our customers with the best value products and services in the market. A large part of this is
ensuring that our network is consistently reliable and that we provide New Zealanders with the download and surfing
speeds that they require, no matter what time of day or how much bandwidth is needed,” says Page.
Even Slingshots broadband UNLIMITED plan has proven to outperform some other ISP’s standard capped plans. The hugely
popular UNLIMITED plan has shown overall speed increases that occasionally better TelstraClear’s, Vodafone’s and Orcon’s
capped plans and highlight the real differences in network capacity.
Slingshot’s continued investment in its core network has not only paid off for its customers but is starting to gain
them a reputation as the ISP of choice. The company has been named one of five global finalists at this year’s World
Forum Broadband Awards for its unique broadband UNLIMITED plan. The awards are held in Amsterdam later this month and
showcase innovative telco services from around the world.
To find out more about Slingshot’s recently nominated Broadband UNLIMITED plan visit www.slingshot.co.nz
Or to read more about the Truenet Broadband survey visit https://www.truenet.co.nz/articles/september-2012-report
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