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Spark New Zealand

telecommunications company in New Zealand
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Summary

Spark New Zealand is a business[1]. It ranks in the top 3% of business entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (458 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Roger Award[3]
  • Country: New Zealand[4]
  • Instance of: enterprise[5], public company[6]
  • Follows: New Zealand Post Office[7]
  • Headquarters location: Auckland[8]
  • Ticker symbol: SPK[9]
  • Child organization or unit: Qrious[10]
  • Commons category: Spark New Zealand[11]
  • Stock exchange: OTC Markets Group[12], Australian Securities Exchange[13]
  • Industry: telecommunications[14], mobile phone industry[15]
  • Inception: January 1, 1987[16]
  • Official website: https://www.spark.co.nz/[17]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Spark New Zealand people[18]
  • Employees: 5092[19]
  • Replaces: Telecom New Zealand[20]
  • Official name: SPARK NEW ZEALAND LIMITED[21]
  • Legal form: simplified joint-stock company[22]
  • Market capitalization: 7,982,438,174 Australian dollar[23]
  • Mobile network code: 05[24], 02[25]
  • Operating area: New Zealand[26]
  • Social media followers: 63,405[27], 63,887[28], 10,300[29], 62,201[30], 61,815[31], 10,700[32], 11,400[33]
  • P14750: E3C8-47B1-C350-925B-CCED[34]

Why It Matters

Spark New Zealand has Wikipedia articles in 8 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[35] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[36]

FAQs

What awards did Spark New Zealand receive?

Honors received include Roger Award[3].

Related Entities

Australian Securities Exchange business New Zealand public company

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [6] ↑ . www2.asx.com.au. Retrieved . www2.asx.com.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  4. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . asx.com.au. Retrieved . asx.com.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . Google Knowledge Graph. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . www2.asx.com.au. Retrieved . www2.asx.com.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . www2.asx.com.au. Retrieved . www2.asx.com.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . www2.asx.com.au. Retrieved . www2.asx.com.au. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . itu.int. Retrieved . itu.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . mcc-mnc.com. Retrieved . mcc-mnc.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  27. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  28. [30] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  29. [31] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  30. [32] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  31. [33] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  32. [34] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [35] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [36] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 3d ago · KrBot bot · 2026-10-10 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Littlesis organization id → 348609
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ Littlesis organization id: 348609, см. / see [[Template:Autofix|autofix]] на / on [[Property talk:P3393]]"
  2. 7d ago · BooktableCoffee · 2026-10-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Littlesis organization id → 348609
    Sitelink count → 10
    Wikipedia languages → ['de', 'en', 'fa', 'fr', 'hi', 'ja', 'ko', 'ur', 'zh', 'zh_yue']
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Littlesis organization id: 348609-Spark_New_Zealand_(Formerly_Telecom_New_Zealand), Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/81701627|Spark New Zealand (Formerly Telecom"
  3. 18d ago · Owlmy · 2026-09-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Ticker symbol → SPK
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Ticker symbol: SPK, Adding [[Property:P249|stock exchange ticker symbol]]"
  4. 7w ago · Trivialist · 2026-08-22 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Inception → —
    Stock exchange → —
    Stock exchange → OTC Markets Group, Australian Securities Exchange
    Country → New Zealand
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ P14750: E3C8-47B1-C350-925B-CCED, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/269254|batch #269254]]"
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