The ISP market is pretty competitive in Australia. Well, it is once you get past Telstra up there in number one. But something about iPrimus’ announcement of 1.1TB broadband plans sent through at 7pm last night sort of lacked… tact.
The new iPrimus plans include 1111GB of data each month, with 511GB peak and 600GB off-peak, and both uploads and downloads counted in the quota. Pricing for the 1.1TB plans will be $100 a month for the vanilla ADSL2+ and $120 for the Naked ADSL2+ option.
But given that the iPrimus press release came just five hours after iiNet’s 1TB plan announcement at 7pm, and tacked on 111 extra gigabytes to the plan almost haphazardly, it feels like a tactless attempt to outdo the country’s third largest ISP in a pointless pissing contest. Especially when there are unlimited data plans out there
Of course, having said that, having 1.1TB to consume each month is kind of cool, whether you’re an iiNet or an iPrimus customer…
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gelnn
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 11:59 AMWe dont even have nbn rolled to out all areas yet they started with 1tb plans.
Come on ….really a complete waste of time and bandwith service at this time!!!
Rod
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 1:04 PMWhat sort of usage patterns (legal or otherwise) genuinely require 1TB/month in this country at this point in time? I just don’t think I could find a way to use that…
matt
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 3:29 PMthat’s why you will note that they also have plans with data caps that are LESS than 1TB…
also, try harder!!
Gareth Redshaw
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 1:36 PMRephrase consume with pirate and your last comment is valid.
Rich
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 2:45 PMMy goodness, what is it with people reading this site!?
When Australian media companies such as Foxtel and ABC announce plans for TV/movie streaming everyone’s all “wah! wah! We don’t have big enough caps in Australia, what a waste of time!”.
Then when a few ISPs start announcing huge data cap plans everyone’s all “wah! wah! Why would you need such a large cap!? Only if you’re a pirate!! What a waste of time!”
Virus__
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 3:32 PMFinally I can now watch 4K YouTube videos on the NBN!!
Lachlan
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 4:13 PMAnd a soon to be “1.2TB plan”
Matreya
Thursday, August 19, 2010 at 8:40 PMWell, for me, it’s not a pointless pissing contest. I can’t get iinet’s ADSL2+ here, but iPrimus have a DSLAM at my exchange, and I can benefit from a newly increased quota. A single HD TV episode on iTunes is around 1.5GB per episode. and movies, about 6-7 GB..
There are perfectly legit ways to use large quotas.
All the movie industry has to do is get on board and realize that people don’t want to pay $20 to sit with a lot of smelly people munching food and talking, and watch a movie.