Officially announced this time last year and promised for Christmas 2010, Telstra has finally launched its BigPond Ultimate Cable offering for select Melbourne suburbs.
There are two plans available – $80 a month for 50GB or $100 a month for 200GB, with theoretical speeds of 100Mbps over 24 months (although there is also a 12-month option for $10 more a month on both plans.)
At the moment it’s only available for certain Melbourne customers, and as Gus points out at Lifehacker, you need to call Telstra to see if you can get it.
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Stephen Earp
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 12:37 PMI’d upgrade my ADSL 2+ connection, with 200gb for $50 a month to go to the $80 plan in a snap, subject to what their little conditions were..
Low Boon
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 12:51 PMI am just wondering whats the point of having that speed with only a 200gig plan ?
Luke
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 1:12 PMSee, this is the problem with Telstra, “for selected Melbourne suburbs” means the upperclass areas of Melbourne.
Thats one of the bigger plus points for the NBN, every Australian suburb will have access to a high speed internet and not just the areas Telstra wants to install their network in.
Bruce Bradford
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 2:03 PMI am sincerely hoping Telstra offer this on the GOLD COAST. I would be a definate customer given I am always sending large Indesign + Photoshop files and use remote desktop as well.
Chino
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 3:13 PMIve got Telstra Elite Cable here in Brisbane and I get around 30mbit (sometimes alittle bit more)… kicka$$!!!!! 100mbit would be awesome…
no one
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 4:31 PMI hope they are not hanging the cable in the street. A La the first cable broad band roll out. We don’t need more of that cable clutter hanging between poles distorting the skyline.
Matt Hutton
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 5:09 PMI’d be overjoyed if they even provided cable here in Newcastle, nevermind a 100Mbps service. I’m stuck in a suburb that doesn’t even receive ADSL so i’m stuck on their overpriced wireless service.
i
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 5:18 PMThis has been available for months, if you knew to ask for it.
If you’re using an EPC3925 modem in Melbourne you’re already using the new network.
@Chino: It won’t be showing up outside of Melbourne for a very long time, if ever.
@Luke: Select suburbs of Melbourne merely means only areas which already have HFC. If anything the more affluent areas won’t because they threw up a stink when the cable was being rolled out.
@Bruce: You’ll only see 2Mbit/sec upstream for your 100Mbit/sec down, better than most but nothing spectacular.
@no one: it’s using the existing HFC network in Melbourne, you’re not likely to see any new cable rolled out.
Triksta
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 5:48 PMthats awesome…… still waiting for dsl in north queensland. they thought (telstra) that my street didn’t need it. sigh.
Zengster
Tuesday, March 22, 2011 at 8:34 PMJust to let you know, Ultimate Cable was available ages ago, but only part of a bundle. Now it’s finally standalone! :D
Yllib Setag
Wednesday, March 23, 2011 at 2:50 PMScumstra Are at it again over priced and minuscule
data plans looks like twiggy shithouski and Mole theheelo have left their mark with scumstra
Greg
Thursday, March 24, 2011 at 4:40 PMoverpriced? Care to point out where else you can get a reliable, residential 100mbps service without paying hundreds or thousands of dollars a month?