The NBN is still but a glint in the eye of many Australians, but trials are steadily rolling out around Australia. Test customers have interim pricing plans, but now Internode has given insight into its wider NBN pricing plans, and perhaps how the competitive landscape may unfold…
Internode’s entry-level 30GB NBN plan matches its recently revamped 30GB Easy Naked ADSL2+ voice and data bundle. All their NBN plans will also bundle $10 of VoIP phone calls. Internode says “it will also become possible to obtain the bundled phone service as a conventional analogue fixed line voice service instead of using VoIP, once NBN Co releases this capability later in 2011.”
Full plan comparison in the table below. It’s worth noting that downloads and uploads will both count towards your data quota, and shaping applied after the data limit will be applied to all traffic. However, there will be extra data packs available. [Internode]
Meanwhile, here’s a quick look at iiNet’s NBN pricing. Until the end of July, iiNet NBN trial customers are getting 100/40 speeds, but that’s set to drop back to 25/5. For the moment, anyway. NBN Co is still rolling out the fibre, its backend, and various pricing systems.
So essentially — unless you’re part of a trial — all this pricing is just muscle flexing. In announcing Internode’s plans, MD Simon Hackett basically said as much when he admitted his pricing was “vulnerable to upward pressure.” We’ll be watching closely.
normandy
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 6:42 PMcheaper than my adsl 1 port at 1MB, I will have one thanks!
Stefan
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 7:06 PMPlatinum 200GB for me sound pretty damn good!
Splinton
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 7:39 PM^ This.
David
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 7:11 PMSeems a bit pricey now but hopefully it’ll get cheaper. =/
Sunny Kalsi
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10:50 AMInternode did write some stuff about some pricing annoyances with the NBN. I’m guessing if those issues are fixed then the pricing will have a similar drop. I think part of the problem is that NBNCo want to be self-funding as soon as possible.
WolfDog
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 7:34 PMWhere the **** are the unlimited plans. I would rather take a 50Mbps hit to get unlimited.
Lookz
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 9:04 AMIsn’t 1 Terabyte a month is enough for your download needs? It’s nearly 35 Giga each day.
Namarrgon
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:13 PMYou can download 35GB in roughly 46 minutes, at 100 Mbit/s.
It’s quite possible to burn through your entire month’s 1TB quota in a single day.
Data-Cain
Monday, July 25, 2011 at 2:28 PMI’ll pass on the 25gig blu-ray rips…
Gazman
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 8:06 PMAnyone seen the blaring headlines already? My favourite:
“NBN retail price revealed: up to $189.95/month”
Ben H
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10:43 AMTriple J just repeated this misleading headline on the 10am news :(
Joeyjoejoe
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 8:19 PMWow, these prices suck! I would expect better caps than that, they are a damn joke, it would be worth it maybe if it were 500gb for $100 at 100/40 mbs, but this is a friggin joke. What a damn waste, wasn’t a majority of the money for this project paid for by taxpayers? Therefore prices should be more reasonable and competitive compared to current market. Especially since we all know the speeds they promise are false unless you are direct downloading from someone who is on the NBN, the pipe over to the usa isn’t any fatter, and it doesn’t matter if you get better speeds when all the pipes to you connected to are much thinner. A prime example is Youtube, this traffic is shaped, not by your ISP, but is given lower priority via the link to the USA, this is why we are all still sitting there waiting for damn videos to buffer while connected at 20mb/s.
Danny Allen
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 9:03 PMInternode was never going to be the cheapest. They aren’t now either. NBN will have all sorts of ISPs competing on price. I’ll be the first to critisise when the time comes, but it’s not really appropriate to judge the entire NBN based on one ISPs price. It’s just the beginning.
Norgan
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10:44 AMLike i have said many times…you may find cheaper but you won’t find better. It’s not all about cost, it’s about the quality of the service delivered, ease of speaking with tech support, the speed you can actually acheive on the backend network and many other factors like free zones etc.
get a clue and stop being a hater for the hell of it!
Stefan
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 5:11 PMInternode are the ones for speed and reliability, if you want heaps of damn unreliable data go with TPG
Travis
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 8:49 PMI’m liking GOLD with 300GB!
fred
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 9:00 PMwhat? australia still has download limits??
Danny Allen
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 9:01 PMWhere abouts are you?
fred
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 11:06 PMAustralian in the UK, we get unlimted download at 24meg for £13 a month…roughly 20 AUS.
CK
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:04 AMThe Yellow Brick Broadband Highway.
Epic
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 11:13 PMSome biggest ISPs in America now have download limits too :)
Winky
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 11:12 AMYou’re full of shit. ONE company (AT&T) has tried to do so and is failing miserably. In terms of internet, they are not the biggest.
Most companies in the US offer an all you can download platter, with few throttling your internet after massive downloads.
Samuel
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 8:00 PMActually “Winky” you are wrong.
Reasearch before declaring someone full of shit.
Ben
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 9:37 PMWoah, jesus christ internode is expensive!
CBD
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 9:37 PMNBN Co is just like the old Telstra…. a monopoly, they can dictate whatever prices they want…
Apollo
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 11:26 AMNo, NBNCo is NOT the new telstra. NBNCo doesnt set the price the consumer sees, only the wholesaler. Telstra just jacks the price for no good reason, NBNCo being Government owned, is likely to be reminiscent of the old Telecom days.
klaw
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 12:33 PMThankfully, you’re totally wrong. NBNCo’s monopoly will have very little in common with Telstra’s arrangements. For a start, NBNCo is properly regulated and has no vested interest in keeping other ISPs from competing.
Hellfish
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 9:50 PMWat a joke – $70 a month with tpg plus $30 phone rental and i’ve got 8mbit unlimited
klaw
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 12:37 PMAnd on NBN you will be able to get a 300Gb plan with 50% faster speed for the same price. How’s that bad?
Also, lucky you for actually living in a place where you can get 8Mb. Very few people can actually get speeds like that.
justin
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 9:58 PMwait for exetel and TPG to release prices, like now with adsl2+ they should be much cheaper than these companies
Adrian
Thursday, July 21, 2011 at 10:01 PMI’m sticking with TPG.. Those prices are nuts!
Ryan
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:16 AMThese plans do kinda suck. I would most probably would go for either Bronze or Silver 200GB as atm I’m paying $30 for line rental, ~$20 for calls and $50 for 60GB ADSL2 at ~10Mbps. Ideally I would rather pay less than what I pay now. It would’ve been nice if voice could be bought separately from an Internet service.
Ollie
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 6:55 AMErrrr ok, here’s the deal; they are COMMERCIAL plans, i.e. for businesses. Not residential. Residential is far cheaper.
Sorry Danny, serious reporting fail.
Op
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 12:38 PMit is commercial pricing for residential services. Read the full article on the link you provided.
Ollie
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:08 PMIt’s not actually dude, check the link after my post.
Ollie
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 6:56 AMhttp://www.internode.on.net/residential/fibre_to_the_home/nbn_plans/
Lolwut
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 6:58 AMDoes the plan count uploads?
Ollie
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 7:30 AMand I’d suggest you do a bit more reading before making stupid comments on what Simon has said, he has a whole explanation as to why it’s the ACCC’s fault the pricing is the way it is. The lump sum of it is that the ACCC forced NBNCo to divide Australia up into 160 odd areas, and RSPs have to rent bandwidth for each and every one of those areas they wish to supply to, but in a regulated fashion i.e. there’s a minimum bandwidth they have to rent. So for 160 areas, that then becomes expensive and actually prohibitive to smaller players.
Greg
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 8:01 AMNo wonder people don’t want to go to internode, when bp 100mbps cable is at least $40/mo cheaper and people can get it right now!
Ollie
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10:03 AMErrr…wut again? what’s the coverage like on that? CBD only maybe? Do they have plans to expand cable coverage? erm no.
Greg
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 12:54 PMCBD only? Get a grip, dude.
klaw
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 12:38 PMWhich people? Very few people can get cable at all, at the moment….that’s kinda the whole point of the NBN.
TSH
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10:09 AMHere’s hoping competition will drive down price (as it clearly has with ADSL2+). Personally, I’m happy to pay a bit more for Internode’s unmetered content and services. Rebuilding my Steam folder over a mobile broadband connection just ain’t feasible!
Ollie
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10:10 AMThe other thing is, as of right now you don’t neeeeed 100mbps NBN, as NBNCo haven’t enabled multicast yet, so you can’t watch FetchTV/TIVO etc on it at the moment. You don’t need 100mbps for Youtube lol and you’d burn thru your quota torrenting in no time. On Internode FetchTV is unmetered content, which will more than add to the appeal of a faster connection, as unless you’re a mad torrenter then you don’t necessarily need the high quota plans to have a decent media experience. To be realistic, 50mbps would give you more than 2x ADSL2+ speeds, as you can theoretically get 50mbps. Rarely will you see 80% of people achieving full ADSL2+ speed as they’re too far from the exchange… optical fibre doesn’t care about distance =)
Rhys
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 10:32 AMYay… not. My current 200gb adsl2+ connection (that runs at 21/1) is $80. This is actually going to cost me more for the same connection.
Retarded.
klaw
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 12:41 PMDid you count the ~$30 line rental in that connection price? The NBN plans include a “rental” price.
And you’re very lucky to get that kind of speed. That’s a lot faster than the national average, even for urban areas. Most people are lucky to get 4Mbps, if they can even get ADSL.
Ollie
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:09 PMEdzackery, no line rental at all, and a dedicated VOIP connection thru Node will cost you a minimum $5/month.
Namarrgon
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:17 PMThat’s a VoIP connection, which Internode and other companies offer for $10/month or less.
Wok
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:34 PMMeh + The 40 Billion tax dollars.
Awnshegh
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 1:40 PMI’m pretty sure iiNet’s pricing is actually cheaper and faster than what I get today. So I’ve got nothing to complain about. As the uptake increases we all know prices will come down so it’s actually a pretty positive starting position.
nicky
Friday, July 22, 2011 at 2:46 PMi think i’ll stick with my TPG 16Mb unlimited for $60