Now NZ

Now is the fresh new face of telcos

With the support of investors and advice from local business people with “a few more battle scars than myself”, Hamish White spearheaded a takeover of the business, recapitalised and rebranded it Now.

The telco that went further…literally

Now became a fully-fledged telco offering the full suite of telecommunications products, but even better they became New Zealand’s only telco that does home visits. They also focussed on relieving customers’ biggest pain points – poor WiFi, connection issues, smartphone problems, spam and security.

Being an industry disruptor, Now is on a drive to continually challenge competitors and deliver more to customers. Hamish calls theirs a “David and Goliath story” and says the collective effort, tenacity and passion of the 70 people who work at Now is what makes the company great. He points out that making mistakes in a business of their size is less forgiving and that it takes tremendous courage for his people to do what they do. He is constantly proud of what they are collectively achieving.

Staying close to the customer

He says one of the best things about the company is its size. Being small means you’re more agile than the competition and whatever role you have in the company you’re still very close to the customer, so you can be incredibly responsive.

Today, Now provides broadband and calling services to business and residential customers nationally from offices in Hawke's Bay, Wellington, Rotorua and Tauranga and is shattering satisfaction scores in their industry. In 2016 NZ Consumer showed Now having the highest customer satisfaction rate for fixed line customers in New Zealand – twice that of Spark and three times that of Vodafone.

Now was the first telco in New Zealand to be able to deliver a phone line over fibre to the residential market and first to offer rollover data. They were voted by their industry as New Zealand’s ‘most innovative broadband provider’ for their in-home digital concierge service.