From the moment iiNet announced its NBN pricing, this was pretty much inevitable; Internode’s cut its NBN pricing.
Not that the official release mentions iiNet in any way shape or form; the official word is that
NBNCo has made significant revisions to its Concentrating Virtual Circuit (CVC) pricing model that address major cost overheads previously present during the ramp-up period of the NBN commercial rollout. These changes, along with other changes in underlying supply economics since July, have enabled Internode to offer its customers a range of great new retail plans to launch the commercial phase of the NBN.
At the entry level, $10 per month has been cut from prices, and the mandatory voice bundling is also gone from all plans. Internode’s offering four data tiers to iiNet’s three — you get the choice of 30GB, 300GB, 600GB or 1TB — across speed tiers labelled as Bronze (12/1Mbps), Silver (25/5Mbps), Gold (50/20Mbps) and Platinum (100/40Mbps).
Given that actual retail plans for NBN launch sites go live tomorrow, this is fairly carefully planned release timing. [Internode]
Tim
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 3:46 PMAs far as i can tell, its still not as good as iiNets prices (depending how much you value not being restricted by peak/offpeak.
But iiNet has 500/500 @100Mbps for $5 more than node has 300GB @100Mbps.
Andrew
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:21 PM…so I took a good look again.
For most people, we’ll see no improvement beyond the 25/5Mbps speeds for regular internet use. A chain only being as strong as the weakest link and all.
So @25/5Mbps that makes 300GB $75 from Internode seem reasonable compared to 100/100GB $65 from iiNet.
It’s definitely competative now. It looks like the ammount of data you need will determine where you go.
@100/40Mbps it’s a bit different. iiNet’s 500/500GB for $99 is clearly better than 600GB for $115 from InterNode. Just my 2c tho.
i2
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 3:57 PMI still find these (and iiNet’s) plans crap… What is the point in having these amazing broadband speeds with data quotas from yester-year! It should be a thing of the past like in other developed countries. Worse still is charging upload as a part of your allowance.
Jeff
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:07 PMExcept of course, they aren’t …
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30686_3-20058933-266.html
Brent
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:12 PM“I still find these (and iiNet’s) plans crap… What is the point in having these amazing broadband speeds with data quotas from yester-year!”
The one area of our internet access that the NBN doesn’t address is the international pipes. Those ‘yesteryear’ quotas that you complain so much about have nothing to do with the ISPs and everything to do with the long haul communications to the US, Europe and Asia. We need a more competitive long haul market before those quotas will rise again, but with the NBN in full swing, hopefully the need will prompt other competitors into that arena.
Pete
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 6:05 PMAgree. Wholesale bandwidth is still an order of magnitude more expensive here than in the US for example. Caching and mirroring reduces the cost to the isp but only goes so far. That’s my main criticism of the NBN, ie. that it is a lot of money and doesn’t address the cost of data into .au at all.
Ben Zemm
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:27 PMIn 2001 there was the 3GB cap: on 512/128 ADSL for around $90/month. Now one can get “unlimited” on ADSL2+ for less than that.
Prices will drop and quotas will increase! Some countries have really slow international speeds.
Remember in 2004 or so when TPG sold 1.5mbit ADSL for $50? That was insanely cheap back then.
Exetel will still have free uploads on NBN. Will the Power Pack be available on Internode NBN? Static IP, faster shaping and free uploads!
Tim
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:59 PMCome on, 1TB is hardly a petty amount of quota sure in future it will be a drop in the ocean, but for now we just have to let plans mature.
Can you imagine if everyone had unlimited quota, you’d have hundred of people downloading at 100Mbps 24/7 (mostly of stuff they will probably never use) which would drive the cost of providing bandwidth up dramatically as the contention would be too high.
Andrew
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 3:58 PMHow did that happen. Despite the simple structure, it’s still not possible to compare plans directly.
iiNet: http://delimiter.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/iinetnbnplans.jpg
iiNet’s still clearly beating them at the higher capacities. Tougher to compare at the lower.. seems to be better value though.
Nick
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:16 PMWhy would Internode’s press release reference iiNet?
Internode had released their plans prior to this being announced http://nbnco.com.au/news-and-events/news/cvc-transition.html and as such simply adjusted them with this in mind.
JonBOY
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 4:38 PMSweet! I’d be going for the 25/5 Mbps 300GB plan for $74.95.
The jump from 30GB to 300GB is a big one though. Will force those customers that use 40-50GB per month to have to make a substantial $20 p/m price jump.
Tim
Friday, September 30, 2011 at 8:47 PMGood to see they had the initial intention to rip everyone off… The governement would call this competition but it is nothing but price gouging. Typical in australia though, the old Telstra line about buying quality. Its all the same.
Kris
Saturday, October 1, 2011 at 11:36 AMPlatinum 600gb for me thanks