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Primus to resell Telstra ADSL2+

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Primus has become the latest ISP to strike a deal with Telstra Wholesale to resell Telstra's ADSL2+ service and is now  offering ADSL2+ from 1500 Telstra exchanges.

It already offers ADSL2+ from 286  exchanges via its own DSLAMs and resells the Telstra ADSL service wherever it is available. Free upgrades from ADSL to ADSL2+ are being offered to existing customers who were not on Primus enabled ADSL2+ exchanges

The service is branded ADSL2+ Extra and plans start from $69.95 for 6GB of data (2GB peak and 4GB off peak) when bundled with a Primus fixed line voice service. This compares to prices for customers on Primus DSLAMs (its Broadband 2+ service) that start at $32.95 for 3GB (1.5 peak/1.5 off peak) and where $69.95 buys 36GB (12/24)
 
Both the Broadband 2+ an Extra plans have access to the same unmetered content which includes the ABC iView service, the iPrimus Gaming Network (iPGN) and the Primus VoIP service, Lingo.
 
Primus said that all customers get access to "the popular Big Kahuna plan which features a massive 200GB of data allowance." However customers on its own DSLAMs pay only  $79.95 per month for this (bundled with fixed phone service): those on Telstra DSLAMs pay $139.95.
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