Good News: You've Got Faster Speeds; Bad News: You Need A Second Mortgage
from the you-have-to-be-kidding? dept
Okay, so we all know that pricing can be a tricky thing. If you’re in a premium market, and you’re just looking for a few customers, then perhaps a high price makes sense. However, it seems unfathomable that an Australian ISP would be offering 10Mbps service for an astounding $500 (Australian) per month (a bit under $400 in today’s US dollars). Now, obviously, lots of broadband providers like to offer tiered services, with the higher speeds going at a premium rate, but 10Mbps isn’t anything all that special — and anyone who’s paying that much for it probably could better spend that cash moving somewhere else that actually offers broadband at a reasonable price.
Comments on “Good News: You've Got Faster Speeds; Bad News: You Need A Second Mortgage”
Is there something I'm missing?
I would almost pay $400 for 10 Mbps. That’s just over 6 T1’s! Most t1’s run you at least $500-1000, and that’s only a guaranteed 1.5 up/down. Am I missing something here?
Re: Is there something I'm missing?
Considering you can get cable/DSL speeds about half that for $30 – $40/month, I have trouble understanding why you’d pay 10x for twice the speed.
Re: Re: Is there something I'm missing?
Welcome to the Australian ‘broadband’ market.
Basically it goes like this :
Small population (20 million), large landmass (size of US) = high price for just basic services, let alone “non-essential” things such as high-speed internet.
For example – it took 6 months for Telstra to install a phone at my sister’s property. In order to do it, Telstra had to build a microwave link to the closest town 75km’s away. In the meantime, to meet minimum service obligations, they provided a satellite phone, for free. Whilst this kind of example is not common, by no means is this an isolated case.
This 10Mbps service, like cable, will serve only a lucky small fraction of Australia’s population. Me, I pay $59 a month for 512/128 adsl with a 16GB quota. This is ‘competitive’ in Australia’s broadband market. Perhaps you should check out The WhirlPool for an idea of Australian internet.
Re: Re: Is there something I'm missing?
Where? Not around here you can’t. I’m in the San Francisco Bay Area and the best Comcast can do is 3mbit down, 256kbps up. Oh, but it’s not available in many areas. My apartment complex cannot get DSL. I have a T1 in my apartment for a small web hosting business, it costs me $530/mo.
Comcast charges $65/mo for their cable modems, and if I was to get DSL in the area, it’d be about the same price (not counting any of the typical SBC/Yahoo promo deals)
$400 for a full 10mbit feed? that would be *great* as long as they don’t cripple the hell out of it by restricting services and/or blocking ports, like a lot of companies do. 🙁
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I pay ?350 per month for a flat HDSL and it s the best deal I could get in Italy
BIG omission
“However, the 10Mbps service costs over 16 times as much as most basic ADSL services, priced at $500 per month with downloads capped at 100GB. “
It’s CAPPED at 100gb?
Weak. Caps suck.