Internode's FTTH Internet plans cheaper and fatter

Stuart Corner
Tuesday, 20 April 2010 06:04

Your IT - Home IT

Internode has cut prices and lifted data quotas on its FTTH plans, and boosted upstream bandwidths, but has started counting upstream data towards the quotas.

Internode provides FTTH services in nine greenfield housing developments in four mainland states over FTTH infrastructure installed by Opticomm. It is one of three major ISPs, along with iiNet and Primus competing for end user customers on these developments.

Internode has reduced the price of its 100Mbps plan with a 100GB data quota by 35 percent to $119.95. per month and has introduced three new plans at different bandwidths with 200GB data quotas, costing from $129.95 to $159.95. The former 10GB entry-level $49.95 plan now has a 15GB monthly data quota.

Internode product manager Jim Kellett told ExchangeDaily that: "One of the big costs that has been reducing is the cost of the gigabytes we feed into all our broadband plans."

He added that the cost of the tail had not changed, and that the prices offered no guidance as to what equivalent services might cost on the NBN "It would be hard to make any assessment'¦the prices were are putting forward are based on a particular cost model."

Internode has also increased upstream bandwidths on all plans. Entry-level 25Mbps plans double to 2Mbps; 50Mbps plans double to 4Mbps; and 100Mbps plans go from 5Mbps to 8Mbps.

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