{"id":469698,"date":"2026-06-10T05:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469698\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T05:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T05:59:09","slug":"spark-to-increase-broadband-mobile-and-copper-prices-by-as-much-as-13-a-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/469698\/","title":{"rendered":"Spark to increase broadband, mobile and copper prices by as much as $13 a month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">In an email sent to some customers, Spark said it was continuing to invest in its network to help customers stay connected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cTo maintain this investment and with rising technology costs \u2013 including what we pay to connect to New Zealand\u2019s copper and fibre networks \u2013 we\u2019re making some price changes,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"xRCtHSZoMFoDBmw\" style=\"display:none\">Spotify Premium will also go up by $2 to $20.99 per month.<\/p>\n<p>Stay ahead with the latest market moves, corporate updates, and economic insights by subscribing to our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/my-account\/profile\/newsletters\/?from=cmp\">Business newsletter<\/a> \u2013 your essential weekly round-up of all the business news you need.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an email sent to some customers, Spark said it was continuing to invest in its network to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469699,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[19838,95,806,3896,138,3595,4201,14724,5345,83644,76369,342,4486,5969,3805,111,139,69,2171,12937,544,9643,61],"class_list":["post-469698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-19838","tag-and","tag-as","tag-broadband","tag-business","tag-by","tag-copper","tag-further","tag-increase","tag-increasing","tag-invests","tag-mobile","tag-month","tag-much","tag-network","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-plans","tag-prices","tag-some","tag-spark","tag-to"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=469698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=469698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=469698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=469698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}