iiNet first to go the nudie run with Naked DSL
The ads are popping up all over (even here) with the news that iiNet has really, truly, rooly launched naked ADSL services. Starting from $49.95, you can now get ADSL2+ from iiNet and you don’t have to pay the line rental tax to do so. The intro plan gives 2GB+2GB, and then plans range up to $119.95 for a 65GB+65GB option. I think the prices do get a little hot a little too quickly for the usage limits on offer, but this is still a good deal considering you aren’t adding dollars for a phone you never use (or don’t want to use, but use now and then because it is there – and that just costs you more dollars).
The deal also includes unlimited local and national VoIP calls through iiNet’s VoIP service. Gravy on top, and perhaps that is the key to why the plans are higher than my brain was expecting. Will be very interesting to see how the competition positions when TPG and Internode, and no doubt others, start to offer their plans in coming months.
I’m shocked we haven’t seen the iiNet guy wearing nothing but an ADSL router! C’mon, iiNet, the joke needs to be done. Actually, lets hope they hold a press event at a strip joint. Hey, it’s a better excuse than some I’ve heard!
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Go Naked! and Connect Better!
questionable as to whether amnet or iinet was first, but it should be noted that the iinet caps INCLUDE uploads
meh. this is a joke, a sad carrot being dangled in front of us. Do the numbers – at $30 / month average line rental only, this lame little publicity stunt will save you about $10 a month, while aiming to make you forget that you are still on 20MB adsl copper wire dating back to AD 1950, when little Johnny was still but a wee lad in short pants.
When are providers in this country going to get real and start offering real (ie uncapped) broadband rather than this fiction of capped/peak/offpeak (because the little monkeys inside the modems have to work harder to deliver those baskets of bits during “peak” time)
Just fyi my last connection when i lived in tokyo ? $5/month unlimited (there is no other) 100MB wireless, no modem needed, open up yr laptop & go. $15 setup fee, done online, takes 10 minutes to activate & start using. When i tried to get something even remotely similar here i was looking at $1000+ / month.
By conservative estimate, we are 10 years behind them and that rate is accelerating. Their next platform will be Wimax rolled out across all major cities, meaning iPhones constantly connected via wifi anywhere in the CBD. We are in the dark ages here, and weak stunts like “naked DSL” are just smoke & mirrors to distract from that fact.