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The O Zone is now live - free data for Orcon Broadband customers
As of today the Orcon O Zone is now live, so Orcon Broadband customers on our current range of plans can surf, stream, upload and download from a range of great sites without the data being counted towards their monthly data use. How cool is that?
Head over and check out the following sites, safe in the knowledge that as an Orcon Broadband customer on one of our great @Home or @Work plans you wont be racking up any excess data charges, or eating into your data allowance...
- orcon.net.nz and the Orcon mail servers (this means you can send and receive email from your Orcon email account without the data counting)
- tvnz.co.nz including all the streaming video
- georgefm.co.nz including all the live streaming radio
- gamers.net.nz
- biggie.co.nz
- thealist.co.nz
That is just the begining. We plan on growing the O Zone over the coming months to include more great New Zealand content. We have already received a whole raft of great suggestions from you about which sites you would like to see included, but if you have anymore feel free to add them in the comments below, or send us an email - .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
If you want to find out more about the O Zone check out the FAQs.
Finally, if for some reason you are not already an Orcon Broadband customer this is another great reason to make the switch today. Head on over and check out our home broadband or business broadband plans right now.
Comments
Martin Rodley
26 May 2009 - 1:03 pm
I listen to Kiwi-FM on-line as I work from home and can’t get any decent radio reception. I only listen using the Dial-up option at 40 K bits/second. It would be great to have it added to the O-zone 
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Kallum Thompson
27 May 2009 - 5:36 pm
The first website that came into mind was TradeMe. A Kiwi favorite!
Warren Harvey
31 May 2009 - 11:01 pm
Just watched a missed episode of Grey’s and my usage went from 1.66GB to 1.77GB? thought this was a free zone?
Duncan Blair - Orcon
2 June 2009 - 9:25 am
Thanks for the feedback and suggestions guys.
@Warren Harvey - Yes, if you watched this on the TVNZ site it should not have counted toward your data usage (provided you are on one of the Orcon@Home or Orcon@Work plans). Is it possible you had some other program running that was using data at the same time? (for example: podcasts automatically downloading in iTunes, Windows updates downloading, etc..)
If you can’t think of anything then please get in touch with our support team: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
Piri T
5 June 2009 - 4:29 pm
Lets see:
Dick Smith
Maifm
TradeMe (as mentioned earlier)
TV 3,4.
Oliver Baker
24 June 2009 - 10:19 pm
Having Microsoft on O Zone would be very good as we could all get our windows updates and trials for free. Microsoft does have servers in New Zealand (in Auckland I believe) so it would be great to have it added to O Zone 
McDave
30 June 2009 - 12:55 pm
At first I thought iTunes (for movie rentals) but we need decent download times so we can watch ‘em as they come down so maybe not.
Maybe iTunes for podcasts or subscribed TV shows when they arrive
David Riley
17 July 2009 - 2:06 pm
can you add You Tube
Marcus
4 August 2009 - 3:26 pm
ftp.citylink.co.nz/ubuntu-releases/
So we can get our operating system updates for free!
(Don’t only cater for those still hooked on Microsoft)
Blake
4 October 2009 - 1:42 pm
Would be GREAT to have YouTube on it and iTunes and all of the newzealand radio stations with video streams
Aaron
6 January 2010 - 1:09 pm
@ Oliver Baker that would be good but there’s 1 problem when windows looks for updates it doesn’t contact the servers in NZ rather it goes direct to MS in the US as even when you click to d/l an update or driver or DirectX for that matter you are redirected to the US server
Aaron Moody
6 January 2010 - 1:14 pm
hey Duncan merry Xmas and a happy new year hows about puttin Geekzone.co.nz into the free bin
Ken
28 January 2010 - 11:38 am
it has been great getting YouTube for nix over the summer holidays. Thanks a lot Orcon. But how about making it a permanent feature? THAT would be an absolutely spiffing gesture old chaps!
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