private company industry telecommunications founded 2006 headquarters hamilton new zealand area served waikato new zealand bay of plenty new zealand products business and residential network solutions rural wireless prepay platform website www.lightwire.co.nz lightwire formerly rural link limited is an internet service provider isp based in hamilton new zealand . lightwire was born out of a university of waikato project in 2006 . from small beginnings and a focus on providing rural internet services lightwire has grown to provide complex network data and internet solutions waikato and bay of plenty wide . 1 2 in may 2016 lightwire purchased the broadband arm of netsmart ltd thus extending their service coverage into the bay of plenty . 3 see also edit internet in new zealand references edit isp wired about ultrafast network . stuff.co.nz . 19 march 2012 . retrieved 5 september 2014 . speedier internet link for hamilton . stuff.co.nz . 30 july 2012 . retrieved 5 september 2014 . netsmart lightwire . lightwire limited . retrieved 2 september 2016 . external links edit lightwire website lightwire s twitter account this new zealand corporation or company article is a stub . you can help wikipedia by expanding it . v t e retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title lightwire limited & oldid 737351187 categories internet service providers of new zealandcompanies based in hamilton new zealandnew zealand company stubshidden categories all stub articles 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 2 september 2016 at 05 44 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view