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Australia's National Broadband Network Officially Open For Business
sydneyhype writes "The Australian National Broadband Network is open for business. The 14,000 residents on the first roll-out will be able to order an NBN service (current ISP contract permitting). Internode, Exetel, and iiNet have released their commercial pricing. iiNet has undercut Internode with prices starting at $49.95 per month for 12Mbps down and 1Mbps up with 20gb on-peak and 20gb off-peak."
It's only like Japan where you can get fast connections cheaply. In rest of the Asia connections cost just as much, if even you even can get faster than 8/1 at all. Only Europe has it good, and it's just some countries too. I know, I live in both Europe and Asia.
Well, it would have been. I don't have this new NBN thingy yet...
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I say, mates, this is bloody impressive.
iiNet has undercut Internode with prices starting at $49.95 per month for 12Mbps down and 1Mbps up with 20gb on-peak and 20gb off-peak."
When comparing iinet to Internode, one has to remember that Internode doesn't do this on peak/off peak thingy. On peak is the download limit you have between 8 AM and 12 Midnight, off peak is the download limit between 12 Midnight and 8 AM. With Internode you get 40 GB whatever time of the day it is.
However, having been a happy customer of both iinet's and Internode's ADSL offerings, both are great ISP's you wont be unhappy with. I'm waiting for Telstra and Optus to release their NBN pricing, that should be hillarious.
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Good value! With Internode, on copper ADSL2+ (24 down, 1.5 up), 150GB monthly quota, all for... $50!
I'll let the early adopters adopt this one. (on the other hand, those poor sods that hadn't heard that you didn't need to use Telstra would probably consider this a good deal).
but the cap is 40gigs [20gb on-peak and 20gb off-peak]? at those speeds you could use up your whole allotment in like 2 days, and I hate to see what the overages costs.
This is newsworthy how? Does an ISP rollout in California, which has ******************DOUBLE******************* the population, get a /. post?
No, the $1000+ per month I have to pay to get 6M/6M is the rip off.
Bring on the NBN.
The list of small towns which are being FTTH'd is pretty impressive though. There are places on there with populations as low as 800.
That said, the NBN outback and deep rural strategy isn't focused on exchanges and ADSL technology - it's focussed on wireless for rural and satellite for really remote places. They've a pretty good track record so far with sensible deployment decisions, and a point-to-point wireless technology in uncrowded spectrum would probably work out.
Sorry, what are you talking about??
The N in NBN is for NATIONAL. The plan is for 93% fibre, 4% wireless 3% satellite with at least 12/1 speeds available on all mediums. The fibre is to go down to towns of 1,000 premises, sometimes smaller if the fibre is going through town anyway. Those on wireless will basically be those currently on the outer edges of ADSL or beyond. Those on satellite will be truly rural.
The NBN are planning plenty of backhaul to their POIs. Congestion isn't going to be an issue within the NBN. Your ISP (now known as RSP), well that *could* be a different story, especially if you go with one of the cheep and cheerful providers.
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I so want the NBN service now. At the next election, there is likely to be a change of government and the current opposition claim that they will cut back the scope of the NBN project (like only provide wifi and/or fibre to the neighbourhood instead of providing fibre to the home).
I want the NBN to do my town before the next election (we are on the list, but it could take years for them to get to us).
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20 gigs? For that price? You gotta be kidding me - I get 20 gigs easily in a week just from work (yeah, when you can mount a .iso from your computer to install in vmware and the speed is about equal to actually first upload the image to storage server you get lazy...) and those speeds - it is now 2011, not 2000 when 12/1 Mbps was hot.
Here 100/10, 19,90 euros / month. No caps. Gasoline however costs a crapton and half a year it is freezing and dark but at least connectivity is good and cheap.
Looking at the iiNet site you can get 100GB+100GB at 12mbps on the NBN for $60 per month. If you compare that to naked ADSL, you would have to pay $70 for the cheapest plan and you only get half as much quota plus "ADSL2+ speeds" instead of 12mbps (and unlike ADSL2+, the NBN speeds dont drop off as you get further from the exchange)
If you are in a location without an iiNet DSLAM and need to use Telstra DSLAMS (including all those people stuck on "pair gain") the value of NBN vs ADSL is even better.
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So my "move to Canada" fund needs to be adjusted to "move to Australia". Do they have trailer parks in Australia?
Having to work for a living is the root of all evil.
Australia beats my connection / price on everything except Data caps. I currently have Timewarner Wideband Internet in Dallas, Texas. I currently have 50 Mbps Down and 5 Mbps Up as my selected tier package. Which costs $99.99(USD) a month. I see that it would cost a Australian with iiNet only $99.95($99.95 Australian Dollars = 97.0015 US dollars) for Twice the speed with a 1 TB Cap. They have me beat on pricepoint. But Timewarner has no Data caps in my area.
IS there a hidden price tag?
Also cheaper to maintain. It's marginal but it changes the maintenance cost structure from continuous upkeep (power, line degradation etc.) to largely being the expense of replacing direct physical damage (trees, back hoes).
When was a copper-only POTS network ever redundant?
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Now that is enough to send me down to the pub for a tinny or two while I watch the rugger.
You don't drink a "tinny" (which is a can) at the pub, which serves beer in glasses. "Rugger" is a Brit term, not Aussie.
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That's potentially not even one full-sized PlayStation 3 game. PS3 games come on Blu-ray Disc, and dual-layer discs can be up to 50 GB.
Because everyone is using the internet for piracy.
How exactly is it piracy to buy a video game on PlayStation Store?
But I agree that 40 GB should probably be enough for entry-level users who don't rent movies online (does Australia even have a counterpart to Netflix?) and don't subscribe to the "discs are going away in the next console generation" philosophy.
the pattern is usually a low starting price to lock you in and then the price floats up at the end of the contract period, either 6 months or a year later. NBN promises a roughly equal service to most people in Oz, some of us won't see much speed difference, others will. The downside is that rural customers will only get the service they have now, that is, poor ADSL, or 3G wireless, sat doesn't really count as it's usually subsidised and services so few few people. NBN isn't planning on going into towns smaller than 1000 people.
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The NBN is a highly political topic in Australia. The opposition leader blames it for loosing him the last election (probably right too). He hates it with a passion. He appointed Malcolm Turnbull to "destroy the NBN". A job he has been working on ever since. There have been many lies and much FUD spread by them and their sock puppets (particularly their propaganda wing, "The Australian")
This is a fairly typical example:
As a taxpayer and citizen of Australia I want the $40 billion dollar waste of money (and way to appease country based members of parliament) shutdown and the money handed back to taxpayers.
If this person actually had a clue, they would know that the NBN is "off budget". It isn't being paid for out of taxpayer dollars. It is being funded by Government bonds. So there is NO MONEY TO GIVE BACK TO TAXPAYERS. But this is a favourite lie they like to peddle. As well as it not actually costing tax payers anything in the long run it will actually make a modest profit (~7% IRR)
The "appeasing country based MPs" is also pure BS. The NBN was planned and under way well before the country based MPs held the balance of power. It's just that they have all realised how beneficial it will be to the country and it was one of the reasons they chose to back the Government, rather than the Opposition (hence their hatred of it).
Another part of the FUD is that the actual budget is $36B, but they love to round it up to $40B or $50B or even $60B.
To put the price tag into perspective, even if it were to come out of the budget, it would be less than 1%!!! For such a significant national infrastructure item that will last for decades to come, that's pretty small bickies.
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Nothing is "likely" about Abbott and his Luddites winning the next election, a lot can change in the next 2 years. By then, the NBN and the Carbon Price will either be huge positives or huge negatives, in real terms, rather than the current fear of the unknown that we Aussies tend to wallow in in the political sphere. That's why the Climate Change deniers and Luddites have tried to delay them.
Indeed. It's properly called footy over in Aussie is it not?
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
I thought it was referred to as League or Union. Aussie Rules is referred to as footy. At least down here 'south of the border'.
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No idea really. Here in NZ we just call it "sports" with everything else being "fake sports". Or at least that's the impression you'd get.
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".