Telstra Broadband

[dodgey]

Telstra have announced that they will slash their monthly broadband access to $29.95 a Month..

Looks like Mr. Switkowski is making a last ditched effort to Save his Job...

 

[rfctigerarmy]

BigPond’s new cable and ADSL 256K plans are priced at just $29.95 per month on a 12 month contract after installation and include 200MB of usage.

 

[M29]

Originally posted by rfctigerarmy
BigPond’s new cable and ADSL 256K plans are priced at just $29.95 per month on a 12 month contract after installation and include 200MB of usage.

Woah! 200 Mb! That'll last for ages! How generous of them.

 

[scottywiper]

Interesting...if you get friggin broadband!
(And I only live in a metro area, in a new suburb)

 

[Ripper]

Originally posted by scottywiper
Interesting...if you get friggin broadband!
(And I only live in a metro area, in a new suburb)

That's city life for you! I have ADSL (512k) in Meekatharra

 

[mellowyellow]

Originally posted by rfctigerarmy
BigPond’s new cable and ADSL 256K plans are priced at just $29.95 per month on a 12 month contract after installation and include 200MB of usage.

Surely there havin a laugh.

200mb....pftt

 

[BT]

Originally posted by mellowyellow
Surely there havin a laugh.

200mb....pftt

Do that in a day!

 

[Red_Devil]

Originally posted by BT
Do that in a day!

Probably a download with some of the stuff I get.

We had Telstra ADSL 1gig, which we had a download limit of 30GIG a month. We often went over the limit. And it aint bloody cheap when you do.
I can imagine how much you would get billed for going over your huge 200mb......

Originally posted by scottywiper
Interesting...if you get friggin broadband!
(And I only live in a metro area, in a new suburb)

They didn't have lines out where I use to live (Melton, outer western suburb). Which we made them get the lines in, I'm not sure how, but we did.

 

[Seb]

If you think 29.95 for 200 meg is funny, should check out Optus' deal.

A dazzling 330MB a month, on a Cable connection for the low price of $55 a month, or something around that.

Absolute joke.

 

[mighty mick]

200 meg thats the whole of your windows updates and stuff when u rehash your computer what happens after the 200meg?

do you pay by the extra meg.


at least if i do use my allocated 8 gig, i only drop down to dial up speeds at no extra cost.:

 

[Joel]

I saw on tv that IPrimus are advertising broadband for $39.95 a month, but I couldn't find any details on their website when I checked the other day, although they may have updated it since then.

 

[rfctigerarmy]

200 Mbs wouldnt allow you to download the latest gaming pack for instance.

 

[BT]

Originally posted by Red_Devil_04
Probably a download with some of the stuff I get.

We had Telstra ADSL 1gig, which we had a download limit of 30GIG a month. We often went over the limit. And it aint bloody cheap when you do.
I can imagine how much you would get billed for going over your huge 200mb......

Mate, tell me about it!

 

[Zeke]

I'm getting 8Gb on 512/256 for $60p/m from Netspace.

 

[Seb]

Originally posted by Zeke
I'm getting 8Gb on 512/256 for $60p/m from Netspace.

Can you get Cable in your area?

 

[mighty mick]

Originally posted by Shaitan
Can you get Cable in your area?

cable is fine until the cable in your area goes down and it takes telstra 14 yes 14 days to get it back up and running, thats why i changed to adsl.

and of course no refunds while waiting for the cable to go back up.

 

[Zeke]

Originally posted by Shaitan
Can you get Cable in your area?

I doubt it.

 

[mellowyellow]

Originally posted by dodgey
Telstra have announced that they will slash their monthly broadband access to $29.95 a Month..

Looks like Mr. Switkowski is making a last ditched effort to Save his Job...

Watchdog sniffs Telstra
Kate Mackenzie
FEBRUARY 17, 2004

TELSTRA'S sharp broadband pricing cuts are being investigated by the competition watchdog following protests from competing ISPs that they risk being forced out of the market.

Telstra shocked the industry by announcing both ADSL and cable prices as low as $29.95 monthly.
The announcement followed Optus's announcement on Friday it would begin selling ADSL this week.

While the $29.95 plan has a small 200MB monthly data download allowance, hundreds of competing ISPs - which rely on Telstra for access to the phone network and ADSL infrastructure - will face an uphill battle if they cannot extract lower prices from the telco's wholesale division.

IiNet,one of Telstra's biggest retail competitors, with more than 30,000 ADSL customers, is one of many ISPs contacted by The Australian that said it had complained to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission about the pricing.


IiNet chief executive Michael Malone said he had been surprised by the announcement.

Internode managing director Simon Hackett said he had been "gob-smacked" by the pricing, because Telstra charged its wholesale customers more than $30 monthly for even the most basic ADSL connection.

"The lowest speeds cost in the low $30s, plus GST, plus connecting to their network, plus data," Mr Hackett said.

Vic Cinc, chief executive of internet services company CIA Group, which has only about 100 ADSL customers, said he would close down that part of the business if a better wholesale price could not be had from Telstra.

"If our wholesale price is above Telstra's retail price, there's no point being in business - it's just silly," Mr Cinc said.

An ACCC spokesperson said it was "investigating whether there are competition concerns" in the broadband market because of Telstra's price changes.

Telstra's wholesale ADSL pricing has never been far from controversy. In November 2001 the ACCC served a competition notice on the telco, threatening it with millions of dollars worth of fines because its wholesale prices were higher than its BigPond retail prices.

Telstra quickly reduced its wholesale pricing by 30 per cent.

When asked if Telstra would cut its wholesale ADSL prices, spokesman Rod Bruem said: "Obviously we're obliged to ensure that our wholesale customers have margins on products. Customer negotiations are conducted on an individual and confidential basis."

However, ISPs contacted by The Australian said Telstra's wholesale representatives did not have details of any price reduction yesterday.

"My perception was they didn't know this was happening either," iiNet's Mr Malone said. "There was no sense of a formal response."

 

[rfctigerarmy]

Your a waste of time Telstra..

Back to the Pavilion!

 

[mighty mick]

iff anything with some of the wierd pricing policies from telstra, many isps would be celebrating