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  1. Broadband Choice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Broadband Pricing Across The World?

    At least for Australia comparison pricing can be had at Broadband Choise. The copper local loop is essentially a monopoly in Australia, and the monopolist is also (not surprisingly) the largest bandwidth provider. Consequently, the majority of ISP DSL pricing is driven by upstream charges.

  2. Re:Ooooohhhhhhh, it hurts to be this fast. by lazybeam · · Score: 1 · on The Australian Broadband Disaster

    190.00USD/mo would get me a 256kbs/128kbs with caps set to around 20GB/mo in Australia.

    It's not that bad, check BroadBandChoice which is a sister site to Whirlpool. :)

    But it's still not multi-megabit bandwidth, and often it is metered.

    I cannot get cable here (being a regional city of ~100k people) and Austar (satellite paytv) is around $60/month. My ADSL is $150/month flatrate, and POTS/PSTN line rental is $25/month. That adds up to ~$US155/month ($US1=~66AUc).

    But you can't directly compare these sorts of things; different earning rates can change things, as well as the fact Australia is an English speaking country (so lots of international traffic) which is physically separate from the rest of the world) This all costs many dollars.

  3. Australian Broadband by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on International Connectivity


    The ultimate comparrison for Broadband in Australia can be viewed at: http://www.broadbandchoice.com.au/

    For general news and info regarding broadband in Australia, visit: http://www.whirlpool.net.au/

  4. Telstra is evil by noz · · Score: 3, Informative · on AT&T/Comcast Consider Aussie-Style Bandwidth Caps

    "70 per cent of Telstra's broadband customers did not reach their download limits."

    Telstra's most limited account is 300Mb limit per month at AU$54.95. Each additional Mb is charged at 15.9c per megabyte.

    Some Australian ISPs charge for each additional megabtye over your limit, and others throttle your speed to something ridiculous (like 28.8kbps). I ordered the latter for my uncle when setting up his ADSL because many people are ignorant of their web usage (at least at first).

    If a user on the 300Mb plan downloads 500Mb in their first month, they will pay

    $54.95 + 200Mb * $0.159 = $54.95 + $31.80 = $86.75.

    If you think that is bad, if a 3Gb user downloads 3.8Gb in their first month (like most teenagers I know), they're up for

    $87.95 + 800Mb * $0.139 = $87.95 + $111.20 = $199.15.

    I'm suprised no Aussies brought this up in the recent article Add-Ons Add Up.

    Independent resources for market research include Whirlpool (Australian Broadband News) and Broadband Choice for indexed summaries of all providers plans. Read them first! Please!

  5. Re:This can't be good in the long run by muzzmac · · Score: 2, Informative · on The Coming Internet Monopolies

    I live in Australia where there is a "Duopoly" (2 companies own all the cable/ phone lines)

    We now can't buy an affordable plan with more than about a 3 to 4.5 GB limit any more.

    Check it out:

    Aussie Broadband Choice Web site

    No I don't think having a monopoly would be in any way a good thing.

    Sorry guys.

  6. Re:Good? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on The Coming Internet Monopolies

    We have 1 (sort of 2) big companies owning broadband in Australia. Try and find a decent broadband connection here.

    Aussie Broadband Choice

    Everything has about a 3GB a month limit.
    It is in no way a good thing.

  7. There are a few alternatives by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Death of Decent Australian Broadband

    I would disagree that there are no alternatives to optus. If you check broadbandChoice ( an EXCELLENT guide to broadband in Oz ) I think you'll find that XIS is a reasonable alternative. And personally, i prefer this tactic to Optus' previous system of banning you for life if you violated a constantly changing limit.