Internode last off the mark with NBN Tasmania pricing
- 08 June, 2010 11:59
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Internode has become the last of the three Internet service providers (ISPs) servicing the stage one National Broadband Network (NBN) trial sites in Tasmania to announce pricing for its fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services.
Internode's NBN plans, which lower the NBN entry point to $29.95 per month, following announcements from competitors iiNet and iPrimus before it. The latter two providers claim to have already signed up customers to the network, which is set to begin operation next month, but Internode managing director, Simon Hackett, said the lower pricing would be a "catalyst for rapid adoption".
“Internode wants to learn as much as possible about how customers use fibre broadband services from its investment in this pilot program, so we want to get as many customers on board as possible," he said in a statement, though failed to say whether the provider had any committed customers yet. "By setting our FTTH prices at below our ADSL prices, we believe this becomes an irresistible offer."
Hackett warned that pricing for the trial sites may bear no resemblance to final NBN pricing, which is expected to become available by 30 June next year. Tasmanian residents that sign up to NBN services under the stage one pricing will be charged final pricing once it becomes available.
However, customers are not forced to sign a minimum contract term, and are able to cancel the NBN service at any time with no cancellation charges.
Residents in the trial sites of Smithton, Scottsdale and Midway Point will have to choose from 15 Internode plans alone, with tiered speeds of 25Mbps to 100Mbps, and tiered data quotas of between 15GB and 200GB per month. However, like plans from iiNet and iPrimus, residential users will not have access to symmetrical downstream and upstream speeds, which are expected as a requirement for high bandwidth applications such as high-definition, multi-party video conferencing.
| NBN Tasmania prices compared | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ISP | Plan name | Monthly cost | Download Speed (Mbps) | Upload Speed (Mbps) | Data quota (GB) | |||
| iiNet (Cheapest) | Fibre 1 | $49.95 | 25 | 2 | 10 | |||
| iiNet (Most Expensive) | Fibre 7 | $159.95 | 100 | 8 | 180 | |||
| Internode (Cheapest) | NBNP1-Entry-15 | $29.95 | 25 | 2 | 15 | |||
| Internode (Most Expernsive) | NBNP1-High-200 | $139.95 | 100 | 8 | 200 | |||
| iPrimus (Cheapest) | Home Fibre Starter Plus | $49.95 | 25 | 2 | 15 | |||
| iPrimus (Most Expensive) | Extreme Fibre Big Kahuna | $139.95 | 100 | 8 | 300 | |||
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What about Exetel's pricing? http://www.exetel.com.au/residential-fibre-pricing.php
They have $10 per month plan, with $1.5 per GB usage. This is pretty smilar to the others' cheapest plans, but that most falilies will not pay much more than $10-15. I, for one, can't wait to sign up to Exetel for my fibre!
Hutchinson James
@Alex
Exetel is not currently offering NBN services to the Tasmanian trial sites - only Internode, iiNet and iPrimus have been confirmed. Any fibre-based pricing from Exetel is either speculative or based or its own pilot trials independent of an NBN environment.
Stevo
Having checked out most of the current prices of Fibre
in Tasmania, I won't be bothering , unless prices drop and download limits increase, instead of being one of the first to sign up in the trial area here in Armidale, I think I will be one of the last if ever.
I will be sticking with my adsl 2 plan
RS
Which you have every right to do Stevo.
The point of the NBN being, that there are others who are not in the happy position you are in - on RIMs or other such sub-standard technology.
These are the people who will be looking forward to the NBN...
D Newman
I also have a dream that with fibre comes cable tv, and real commercial challenge to Foxtel, even if they have progamming content by the balls...
Real reason for the dream, over an hour of paid tv entertainment without one single fracking funeral advert...
ADSL cant offer me that dream......
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