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Lightwire Limited
Lightwire
Company typePrivate company
IndustryTelecommunications
Founded2006
FounderMurray William Pearson Edit this on Wikidata
HeadquartersHamilton, New Zealand
Area served
Waikato, New Zealand,
Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
ProductsBusiness and residential network solutions
Rural wireless
Prepay platform
Websitewww.lightwire.co.nz

Lightwire (formerly Rural Link Limited) is an Internet service provider (ISP) based in Hamilton, New Zealand. Lightwire was born out of a University of Waikato project in 2006. From small beginnings and a focus on providing rural internet services, Lightwire has grown to provide complex network, data, and internet solutions Waikato and Bay of Plenty wide.[1][2]

In May 2016, Lightwire purchased the broadband arm of NetSmart Ltd thus extending their service coverage into the Bay of Plenty.[3]

See also

References

  1. ^ "ISP wired about ultrafast network". Stuff.co.nz. 19 March 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  2. ^ "Speedier internet link for Hamilton". Stuff.co.nz. 30 July 2012. Retrieved 5 September 2014.
  3. ^ "Netsmart - Lightwire". Lightwire Limited. Retrieved 2 September 2016.

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