Primus reveals NBN services and pricing
- 19 May, 2010 11:26
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Primus has launched a selection of retail National Broadband Network (NBN) services in Tasmania.
The ISP is offering fibre-to-the-home (FTTH) services to several regional towns starting with Smithton, Scottsdale and Midway Point. Standard NBN plans will be available from $39.95 per month when bundled with a phone plan, or on a 12- or 24-month plan. Phone plans start from $24.95 per month including national and local calls.
Primus will also offer its iPrimus Max FTTH $89.95 plan half-price ($44.97) for the first six months including local, national and mobile calls and broadband access. Line rental, set-up and wireless router will be bundled into the 24-month plan free of charge. Plans will have a 5GB limit during peak times (10am-2am) and 10GB off peak (2am – 10am). Once they’ve exceeded data allowances, users will have their Internet speeds limited.
Primus will also offer streaming ABC iView, high-definition video and movies on-demand to its residential customers, while corporate subscribers will be able to access its new Accella VoIP product.
In a statement, Primus CEO, Ravi Bhatia, claimed the NBN was the first opportunity for many customers to receive rich Internet media services such as VoIP, IPTV and high-definition video.
“We are thrilled to be one of the first ISPs to provide state-of-the-art communications in Tasmania through the NBN,” he stated. “We’re particularly excited that our customers will have access to a wide range of new capabilities and advanced services using this new generation high-speed fibre-to-the-home network.”
As previously reported in ARN, Primus and Internode announce their involvement with the Tasmanian NBN last November.
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Comments
ripoff
why would i want to swap from my adsl ??
the price is worse than what i am getting now
the nbn will fail if that is going to be the pricing
bammers
LOL... 5gb limit on fibre service..... HAHAHAHA
I'll stick to my ADSL2+ tpg plan with unlimited downloads for $75 a month thankyou!
Bob
LAUGHABLE
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.....
Phil
@ ripoff
It's more like Primus will fail if this is there pricing. NBN Co are charging all providers the same cost for a port so it just shows you that Primus are greedy and if people sign up with them, they're simply stupid. Just go somewhere else.
Primus always has been a ripoff so this is really no surprise.
whoisit1998
IT seems they are including calls for free, as part of the $24.95 phone rental.. thats a good thing, but only 5 gig, lets see at 100 M/bit you'd chew through that in minutes
Denis Hands
iPrimus is gunna fail first if they dont chnage their ADSL 1 prices that have been the same since I first signed up in 2005ish, 5GB @$50! while I could be getting double at minimum for the same price
workitout
Yes that's because the business case for NBN doesn't stack up. Its way to expensive for the benefit over ADSL and wireless. At $38bn cost, if they manage to get 40% of the 9 million net connections in Australia on it (unlikely) it still costs over $10,000 just to connect each one. Then start adding the data costs.
What?
$89.95 for 15gb + my local, national and mobile calls is great.
D
What a joke, that's terrible value for money.
What are they going to shape your speed to? 64Kbs would be a pathetically large drop from 100Mbps connection.
Cameron
Is this a joke? These prices are worse than current ADSL prices.
Is there the option for no phone (naked) fibre?
I certainly won't be getting fibre if these are the prices they're advertising...
deathr0w
There on glue thats for sure and that is a typical ISP being a rouge to there clients like all NZ ISPs are now with data allowances on high speed internet look at sweden/norway they should be following that.
Bob
Yeah great, If you spend all your life on the phone. Hahaha...
P
Primus is the worst run ISP in Australia (excluding DODO)
Brad
Primus you have got to be kidding me? 5Gb? I eat that for breakfast. Anyway, your service is the worst in Australia, worse than even Telstra, so you will NEVER get my business.
D
This is what frustrates the fk out of me.. sh!t telco's like this stopping the industry from advancing by been too profit hungry.
In all seriousness.. what is even the POINT of a 5gb plan on a Fibre type service??? Overlooking the fact that it's ridiculously priced.. even if it was $20.00 it's still a stupid concept because it's FIBRE... wasn't the point of the government putting the NBN in so Australian's could stop living in the stone age in terms of the Internet industry and be up to date or at least in a similar league to the likes of America, Japan, etc...
This really is just stupid... and if other telcos follow suit.. I will be bitterly disappointed... the NBN is a massive move forward for Australian Telecommunications and the way Telco's are structuring this is just as effectively pushing us back to where we were.
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