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The last bank to phase them out is Bank of New Zealand, which will not accept them from July. Rush had been a customer of Westpac for over 30 years and joined them because of how accommodating” they were at the time. Rush and her partner John Heron, 74, were convinced banks were culling cheques for their own convenience, and didn t care about rural customers. This was enforced by the reduction of opening hours at rural branches. As the sole manager of her farm, Rush said she did not have time to travel to her nearest bank, which was only open for four hours, three days a week.
Telcos propose changes after watchdog finds some spending $48/month too much on mobile
8 Mar, 2021 08:45 PM
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Phone bosses have pledged to send their customers annual spending summaries - plus a prompt to change plans if there s a cheaper deal that meets their needs.
They also say they will release a comparison tool to make it easier to compare plans between providers.
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The changes are on the way after a shove from a regulator.
In September last year, the Commerce Commission released an analysis of 80,000 mobile phone bills that found:
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• A quarter of post-paid (contract) consumers could save an estimated average of $11.60 a month by moving to a cheaper plan that would still cover their usage.
Chorus offers up to $800 bounty for those who ve strayed to Spark, Vodafone wireless broadband
22 Feb, 2021 04:40 AM
10 minutes to read With Chorus withdrawing its first copper line service from September, the fight is heating up over the best technology to replace it: UFB fibre (offered by Chorus in most areas) or wireless broadband from Vodafone, Spark or 2degrees.
Chorus CEO JB Rousselot makes technical arguments for his company s service. But today on a first-half results conference call, he told analysts that his company is also ramping up its efforts to win back customers who have already defected to wireless broadband - or yet to decide which direction they go after abandoning copper - by using bigger cash bounties.