orcon disambiguation . orcon limited trading name orcon type subsidiary industry telecommunications founded 1996 founder seeby woodhouse headquarters auckland new zealand area served new zealand key people mark callander group ceo products telephony internet connectivity hosting number of employees 300 parent m2 group website www.orcon.net.nz orcon limited trading as orcon is a new zealand telecommunications company . it is new zealand s fourth largest internet service provider isp . it has a 5 % share of the fixed line market . 1 contents 1 history 2 local loop unbundling 3 ultra fast broadband 4 genius go 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit seeby woodhouse founded orcon by starting a small business orcon group limited while at university in 1994 . 2 the startup provided computer advice and support as well as selling early model cell phones and accessories . demand led the business to expand its scope to include pc upgrade and repair services . orcon remained focused on the local market on auckland s north shore . by 1996 the business had expanded its range of products and sphere of operations . it began distributing computer accessories and supplies to small business owners and to home users throughout the auckland region and to other parts of new zealand as required . in 1997 orcon group commenced as an isp with three dial in 33.6 k modems . through the start up phase it focused on the no frills end of the market aiming at skilled and technically minded customers with pricing at half the price of the cheapest competition . in 2002 orcon became a major isp in the residential market ; it launched a new web portal and undertook marketing initiatives to grow the customer base that positive word of mouth had established . on 12 june 2007 kordia a state owned telecommunications company purchased orcon for nz 24.3 m effectively nationalizing it . seeby woodhouse an 80 % stakeholder made 19.44 million from the deal while business partner mark mackay pocketed 4.86 million . citation needed as of 2014 update orcon s main competitors included telecom and vodafone . in june 2014 the company was bought by callplus . 3 local loop unbundling edit orcon issued a press release on 9 august 2007 stating that they had become the first 100 % kiwi owned telecommunications provider to install equipment in the first unbundled telecom exchange at ponsonby . on 30 august 2007 orcon released an additional press release to announce that they had successfully connected a trial customer at adsl2 speeds to their dslam via local loop unbundling llu . in march 2008 orcon launched their adsl2 service in parts of auckland becoming the first isp to commercially provide adsl2 in new zealand . 4 5 orcon has been a key participant in recent years in new zealand s llu process which is a rapid u turn from past public statements by former chief executive seeby woodhouse . a computerworld article from 2005 describing a joint letter by several isps to the commerce commission quotes woodhouse as saying he did not sign the letter because he did not agree with the request for local loop unbundling . with llu woodhouse says only the bigger players such as ihug now vodafone telstraclear also now vodafone 6 and possibly callplus slingshot could afford to put their own equipment into the exchanges . ultra fast broadband edit orcon was the first retailer to begin providing fibre as part of the ultra fast broadband ufb scheme . 7 in september 2011 orcon announced that a group of northland schools were set up for service with orcon delivering telecommunications over fibre in partnership with orewa based internet service provider watchdog corporation ltd. 8 genius go edit in june 2013 orcon launched genius go a smartphone app that allows customers to make local landline calls and receive calls to their home phone line via their smartphone wherever they are in the world . 9 see also edit internet in new zealand references edit putt sarah 15 april 2013 . kordia sells orcon to private investors . computerworld . retrieved 16 april 2013 . from start up to soe . orcon . 2007 06 11 . retrieved 2013 02 27 . while still at university in 1994 seeby started orcon group limited ... pullar strecker tom 20 june 2014 . callplus expands after orcon buy . stuff . retrieved 20 june 2014 . orcon s 3x faster broadband goes live . newstalk zb . 13 march 2008 . retrieved 2008 03 16 . orcon launches the first unbundled service in new zealand press release . scoop . 13 march 2008 . retrieved 2014 02 28 . vodafone acquires telstraclear . vodafone . orcon first retailer on ufb network . stuff.co.nz . 6 september 2011 . retrieved 2012 02 14 . whangarei schools first to plug into ufb . idealog . 6 september 2011 . retrieved 2012 02 14 . app allows landline calls using mobile . tv3 . 19 june 2013 . retrieved 2013 06 19 . external links edit orcon orcon s twitter account retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title orcon internet limited & oldid 709923456 categories internet service providers of new zealandcompanies based in aucklandm2 grouphidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2012articles containing potentially dated statements from 2014all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 13 march 2016 at 22 40 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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