Nice to see a date put forward following the previously announced upgrades. Interested in the newer 2000/200 tier announced as well, as the higher upload speed will be really nice for pushing my excessively large photo backup onto backblaze, that said if it’s priced too outrageously I’m not certain what the take-up would be for normal home users initially.
I am on aging PMG era copper with no upgrade on the horizon. I expect to die from old age before NBN offers better than 50Mbps VDSL. I will never forgive the cynical partisan politics that produced this shit show or the idiots who knew it was bullshit but went along with it due to tribalism. It was supposed to be a national network.
It was the Telecom Oligarchs that kept the speed and infrastructure limited.
I really wish that Telstra had not been accepted into the NBN; In my alternate history, FTTH would have been rolled out in parallel to all existing corroded copper. The problem with my alternate timeline is that Telstra would try to push fixed 4G and 5G as their only option and oversaturated the MobileNet infrastructure… wait they are doing that anyway!
Feel 200 up is not enough, such a joke they are selling so much down vs so little up :(
I know, right? It would be nice if they just opened up the symmetric plans at a reasonable price instead of paywalling them behind business plans.
Would be nice to drop the price for lower speeds instead.
Yeah, that’s not happening. They’re desperate to push revenue per user up, so they keep hiking low speed prices to push people towards 100+ megabit plans.
That’d be great if the rollout of FTTH upgrades hadn’t just been delayed 18 months
It won’t change my current needs or plan I’m on, but I hope my free speed bump days get the upgrade to the new levels 😉
2025 lol
There are no changes to the nbn wholesale pricing of these speed tiers arising from the speed increases.
Interesting, but how will this affect the price for end users? There are other fees charged to the ISPs too?
I am suspicious because NBNco only mentions wholesale pricing in this article, not end user pricing. They would have modelled it and then chosen not to talk about it. They might not technically be the entity finally billing you, but they’re responsible for strong and direct impacts on what users pay.
I would expect it to be the same as now with pricing dependent on the ISP. You’ll likely still have to do the 6 months / 12 months churn to get the best deal.
I’m not certain if it’s still the case, but the announcement earlier this year stated the upgrades were being undertaken with no increase to wholesale costs: https://www.nbnco.com.au/corporate-information/media-centre/media-statements/nbn-plans-to-accelerate-highest-speed-tiers
That’s also not to say that the retailers don’t increase their pricing independent of the wholesale pricing.
