Best Telecom Companies in New Zealand
The 64 best Telecom companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Trustpower.
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Our analysis of 100 Telecom companies
$83.4b in tracked funding; 91% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Telecom companies in New Zealand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Trustpower Energy Utility company | $270M | 115 mo ago | Acquired | Vincent Hawksworth CEO | 1925 | — | — |
| 2 | Two Degrees Mobile Provider of mobile & broadband plans | $28M | 94 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2001 | Cart FunctionalityDrupalSentry+29 | — |
| 3 | Datagate Innovation Cloud-based billing and customer service solutions provider | $3M | 112 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — |
| 4 | 2talk Business communication services provider | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2006 | BootstrapAngularJSHubSpot Chat+10 | — |
| 5 | 4rf 4RF is a provider of point-to-point and point-to-multipoint microwave radio solutions. | — | — | Private | — | 1998 | — | — |
| 6 | actrix Actrix provides broadband, VDSL, and naked broadband services. | — | — | Acquired | — | 1989 | — | — |
| 7 | Altra Internet Provider of wireless broadband internet services | — | — | Unfunded | Dave Edwards Owner & CEO | 2005 | — | — |
| 8 | Apogee Networks Limited Provider of satellite-based IP broadcast internet network services | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2015 | — | — |
Top 3 Telecom companies in New Zealand
#1
Acquired · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2001 · 1631 employees$28Mraised▾
Provider of mobile & broadband plans
- Jul 2018Conventional Debt$169.5M
- May 2015Grant (prize money)$1.8M
- Jun 2013Conventional Debt$165M
- Jan 2011PE$4.5M
#2
Acquired · Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty · founded 1925 · 24 employees$269.6Mraised▾
TrustPower, a New Zealand's Power Company, providing renewable energy generation and electricity as well as power, phone and internet needs. The company operate 38 hydro power stations across 19 hydroelectric power schemes, two wind farms and one diesel power station in New Zealand, apart from which the company is also actively identifying and developing potential wind farm sites nationwide, including in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. Currently they have two wind farms generating electricity in Australia.
- Nov 2016Conventional Debt$269.6M
#3
Acquired · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2013 · 23 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Datagate provides cloud-based billing and customer service solutions for the telecom resellers, utility companies, managed service providers, and internal service providers. Its solution is based on Microsoft Azure platform. It enables the service providers or the resellers to send a single bill to the end users for the aggregated services like mobile phone, electricity, gas, etc. In Apr'14, Enprise has acquired the company to expand its offerings.
- Jan 2017Seed$1M
- Feb 2016Seed$1.5M
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Telecom coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on 5G / 6G Networks is moving in New Zealand
A read on the academic research around 5G / 6G Networks — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 82 New Zealand-affiliated papers.
- Victoria University of Wellington46
- University of Canterbury13
- University of Auckland9
- Auckland University of Technology9
- Ministry of Education6
- Beamforming3→6
- Electronic engineering3→4
- Telecommunications3→4
- Beamforming2
- Telecommunications link2
- Interference (communication)2
- MIMO2
- Radio-frequency identification1
Where 5g 6g is researched across New Zealand
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
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