About Us

WISE is roughly an acronym for Wairarapa Internet Services.

The Wairarapa Times-Age purchased the Internet operation "WINZ" in 1997. From 1 June 1999 the operation was renamed WISE Net, to avoid continued confusion with other commercial operations using the WINZ name. Following the purchase of the Wairarapa Times-Age by Wilson and Horton in 2002 ownership of WISE Net passed into private shareholding and the business was relocated from the Times-Age Building to the Departmental Building in Chapel Street, Masterton on 6 January 2003 and then in April 2005 to 6 Queen Street, Masterton.

WISE Net is a founder signatory to the NZ Internet Code of Practice and and is an authorised .nz Registar