Bigpipe People Profile: Sean Forster
Hello! It’s time you met Sean, one of several alleged humans who works at Bigpipe Towers. Take it away, Sean. Your Name Here Sean Forster A/S/L? 24 (1 more month until I am a quarter century *cringe*) Male / about 4 desks away from you That came out a bit...
Bigpipe Gives Away A Cray-zy Prize
A few weeks ago, Bigpipe decided to give away a Mystery Prize. The actual mystery prize was a Chromecast. It wasn’t that mysterious, actually; we said what it was in our Facebook post. But we decided to have some fun with it. We advertised the tantalising...
Bigpipe People Profile: Lannah Frost
At Bigpipe, we pride ourselves on having human staff. One of our humans we are proudest of is Lannah Frost. Find out some facts about this human in the series of questions and answers!
Good Video Streaming Everyone!
Here at Bigpipe Towers we love statistics, charts, and techy stuff of all kinds. So when Netflix released their stats it was a day of wild celebration. Why? What did we learn? That NZ has good infrastructure for video streaming – and it’s getting better...
How to Switch ISPs (Without Ruining Everything)
Bigpipe explains how to switch your internet service provider without ucking up your internet shi.
Bigpipe People Profile: Lisa Quayle
Bigpipe loves our programmers – without them, we would not have programmers! (That sentence is what programmers like to call “recursive,” which is something that all programmers love.) Without programmers, we also wouldn’t have a website,...
What To Expect When You’re Expecting Fibre
It’s been a long time coming, but you’ve done it. Perhaps you’ve watched as the construction crews dug trenches next to roads near you, forcing endless orange pipes into the ground. Perhaps you’ve held a flyer in trembling hands, or beheld an email, announcing...
Oh God Why: Facebook tells us what it’d do with $100
We’re not sure why we thought of asking Bigpipe’s Facebook fans to come up with what the most useless thing they could spend $100 on. But we did, and our fans delivered. We suppose that Bigpipe’s high-quality yet highly-inexpensive internet has given...
Featured Bigpiper: Vin Lew
At Bigpipe, customers are love, customers are life. We want to share that love with the rest of the world, so we’re showing off a few of our amazing customers. The first of these stunning individuals is @VinLew. Your Name Here: Vincent Rijlaarsdam A/S/L? 21 /...
Bigpipe People Profile: Enzo
Here at Bigpipe Towers, we’re all about the customer service. That’s why we have in-house customer support. I can actually see the customer care team from where I sit. Look at them. Making sure that customers get served. What a good bunch! We’d like...
A Bedtime Story About Broadband
If you want to make a happy ending for your own Broadband, sign up now at...Read moreHere at Bigpipe, we like to celebrate serious things, like The Internet (It’s Serious Business!™) with things that are less serious (like cat memes). Movember fits into that nicely, much like a cat in a glass container.
Let It Go, Let It Grow: Doing The Movember Thing
Gidday readers. I’m Josh and I am the resident Marketing Wizzard here at Bigpipe Towers. You may remember me from such blog posts as the one where I used The Simpsons memes to explain why Bigpipe is awesome and/or get a job at Bigpipe. But today I want to talk...
The Ultimate Armageddon Fan!
There Can Be Only One… As a proud sponsor of this year’s Armageddon Expo, we here at Bigpipe Towers wanted to find the Ultimate Armageddon Fan. The prize: the Ultimate Armageddon Prize Package, with two Emerald VIP passes, a stay in the SkyCity Grand...
We did it internet! We made a flag for you!
Here at Bigpipe Towers, we had a dream. A vision, of an internet, united, under a single flag. Naturally, the only way to get one was via a competition, involving random members of the public, most of whom had little or no design experience, and a panel of...
You Won’t Believe How This TV Website Solved Their Data Problem! (Spoiler: they used Bigpipe)
Popular and competent television website The Spinoff had a data problem! Who were they gonna call? No-one, because Bigpipe doesn’t have a call centre! After they signed up like you should totally do, we swooped in like an Internet-based Batman, swapping out...
The 11 worst songs to be listening to while on hold (as chosen by Bigpipe Facebook fans)
Here at Bigpipe we are fascinated with the phenomenon of hold music. Because we do online customer support, it’s not something our customers have to put up with. But other companies still force their customers to listen to endless crackly renditions of...
How To Make Your Own Videogame: Joe Chang talks about the Kiwi Game Starter
Ever wondered how you could create and publish your own videogame? Wonder no more. In 2014 the New Zealand Game Developers Conference launched the Kiwi Game Starter. The idea is simple: put New Zealand game developers in a Dragon’s Den-like competition to pitch...Every Town A Gigatown: The Next Level of Ultra-Fast Broadband, Explained With Cat Memes
Good news, everyone! Would you like your town to be a Gigatown? It might just happen. The Government has announced the scope for phase two of the ultra-fast fibre rollout, and there’s some sweet tidbits in there. Read on… Whooaaa, we’re half-way there The...
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