Right now, I wish I was living in Tasmania. iiNet has just announced that their 1TB plans announced this week are available to their NBN customers, with the added bonus of 100Mbps speeds until June 2011. And for the same price as everyone else pays for ADSL2+ speeds, no less!
These updated quota plans will be available from September 1. And while the time limit of 100Mbps speeds until June next year sucks (the price will probably go up then, I guess), having high quota, high bandwidth internet access would essentially mean you could use the net as an IPTV portal without ever having to worry about exceeding your data allowance.
[iiNet (PDF)]
Anthony
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 3:51 PMYou should be able to get IPTV (Freezone) from iiNet for free on any of there ADSL2+ plans (NBN included)
Kalem
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 4:39 PMQUICK LOOK PROVIDERS! A BAND WAGON! COMING THIS WAY!!
This is actually really good that Australian ISPs are all doing this at the same time. We can thank Bigpond for that (first good thing they have done in forever).
Ben Evans
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 5:19 PMMe want. Now.
Marcel Bennett
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 5:46 PMPlease vote below the line for the senate in Victoria and put Stephen Conroy DEAD LAST.
That will send a message that we don’t want a filter loud and clear!
Water Bear
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 6:39 PMphwoar, just phwoar.
8 up…… phwoar
Hunted
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 6:43 PMIf the liberals scrap this before it rolls out in melbourne i’m gonna be soo pissed.
ollie
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 8:06 PMjesus, i’m moving to tassie
Roan
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 10:13 PMEpic. I want 100Mbps :)
matt
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 10:36 PMlol, is it just me… I thought with technology, things were meant to get better over time… not worse…
is this just the “pimping the NBN for the gov until people stop scrutinizing it” period…
matt
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 10:39 PMoh, but aside from that… this is awesome. even at 25mbits (seeing as you will ACTUALLY GET 25 mbits, not like 3mbits when your not in spitting distance of the exchange like with adsl2…) 1TB is the type of cap you need to take advantage of it.
Travis New
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 10:56 PMI think that so long as people continue to sign up I wouldn’t imagine the pricing goes to high other wise they won’t make significant returns on their investments. As far as pricing goes $99.95 for 1TB on 100/8 is easily worth it in my eyes, Also this is also very early so expect other ISP to get aggressive at the same time.
Andrew Brierley
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 7:31 AMMeanwhile I am paying $49 for 10GB at 512/128 in Dapto where I can’t even get ADSL 2 unless I pay through the nose for Telstra’s service?
Wish I lived in a marginal seat :-(
Mitchell Sheldrick
Saturday, August 21, 2010 at 1:31 PMTelstra has 50GB ADSL2 for $50 per month.
Andrew Brierley
Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 8:31 AMThanks Mitchell, this was not available last time I looked (Several months ago)
However, by coincidence, the Telstra Salesman knocked on my door the other day and I signed up for 100GB ADSL 2+ for $88 per month including line rental.
Keep in mind though that this is half the price in Sydney
Andrew
Semonia
Thursday, May 17, 2012 at 3:36 PMJohn Bennetts @ 20 you’d be pretty hard prsesed to find a modern computer that doesn’t have 8 bit bytes.And, if modern usage has it that a byte always and only means 8 bits, then what do I call the 32-bit string which a 32-bit processor uses? Is it a quadbyte? And 64 and octobyte?I think you might be referring to 32 bit integers rather than strings (which doesn’t really make any sense). I don’t know of people who call them quadbytes etc these days people would just talk about 32-bit ints or 64-bit ints.Robert @ 23 And just to complicate things further I’d guess that you were measuring effective speed rather than the actual number of bits or bytes transmitted which would include all the network protocol overhead.Your university download experience does point out one rather significant issue. Its most often not that universities and corporations can’t get faster links (they already have fibre). The infrastructure is there if they want to use it. Its that they don’t want to spend the money to pay for the extra bandwidth. The NBN is not going to change that situation significantly.
Rahul Khanna
Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 4:23 PMTassie’s hardly a marginal seat – their government was just smart enough to petition to the government to be the first on the list. With the way things are looking now Tasmanians will ironically have the best Internet in the country for another decade.
Andrew Brierley
Thursday, September 9, 2010 at 8:34 AMNobody said Tassie was a marginal seat?
I said I wished I was i a marginal seat as opposed to being in a Labour stronghold, then maybe we would have had some consideration to move up the pecking order.
Andrew