page_title: 2degrees
section_title: Retail
hierarchical_section_title: 2degrees / History / Retail
caption_attribution_description: English: A 2degrees retail store on Customhouse Quay, Wellington
context_page_description: 2degrees is a telecommunications provider that operates in New Zealand. Its mobile network launched on 4 August 2009 after nine years of planning. 2degrees offers prepaid and pay-monthly mobile services as well as fixed-line phone and broadband services.
  It has spent over NZ$550 million building its mobile network, which as of 2016 covers Ashburton, Auckland, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, Hastings, Invercargill, Levin, Napier, Nelson, New Plymouth, Oamaru, Palmerston North, Queenstown, Rotorua, Taupo, Tauranga, Timaru, Wanganui, Wellington and Whangarei. The network works with UMTS-900 and UMTS-2100, and LTE Band 3, 8 and 28 mobiles. In areas without 2degrees coverage, handsets roam on Vodafone NZ's GSM and UMTS network. 2degrees refers to areas where it has its own 3G coverage as "mobile broadband zones".
  2degrees is majority owned by US-based Trilogy International Partners.
  In March 2015 2degrees announced it had acquired Snap,
  a broadband-based ISP, and from 28 July began offering broadband and home-phone services in addition to existing mobile services.
context_section_description: 2degrees has 56 retail stores, including fifteen throughout Auckland, one in Wellington City, one in Paraparaumu, four in Hamilton, two in Tauranga, two in Christchurch and one in Dunedin. The company also runs several smaller kiosk stores, which tend to be located in shopping centers. They also offer their products at 1,523,741 supermarkets, petrol stations and convenience stores.
caption: A 2degrees store in central Wellington
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