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Leo Geerlings
Business Analyst
594 staff
29 mobiles
Nationwide
Joined 2012

“We have stores from Whangarei to
Invercargill and the coverage is brilliant.”
Spotlight is a major retailer specialising in fabrics, crafts and manchester with 18 stores throughout New Zealand.
We caught up with their Business Analyst Leo Geerlings to talk about 2degrees and their business.

Why does Spotlight need mobiles?

And what impact is 2degrees making?

We have people that spend a lot of time on the road. Like
our buying group that visits vendors and stores, and the
consultants for our curtain business. They need to keep in
touch so mobile communications is very important to us.

The major contribution to our business would be cost savings.
Since moving we’ve saved ourselves $1,500 a month, which
is about 30% of our total mobile bill. That’s fairly significant
given that’s only on 30 connections. Also, we got to keep our
numbers, we can share data between various gadgets and
we can keep our minutes that we haven’t used for 12 months.
The new smartphones caused a lot of excitement too.

What was your old provider like?
I got the feeling that with our old provider we were being
taken for granted. They were difficult to get hold of, if we
needed an extra connection it always took weeks before we
got any response. And the bill was fairly hefty.

Any issues with the network?

And how about the service?
They’re New Zealand-based so that’s great – you don’t have
to talk to someone overseas. In both cases that I had to call
them, they answered my queries very quickly and efficiently.

We have stores from Whangarei to Invercargill and the
coverage is brilliant. We’ve had no loss of coverage [