Almost four months after iiNet and others shook up the market with what were dubbed Australia’s first terabyte broadband plans, the nation’s second-largest telco has come to the party, updating its offerings to bring it into the terabyte league.
The SingTel subsidiary today updated both its bundled plans (including its ‘Fusion’ home phone and broadband plans) and its stand-alone broadband plans to include significantly higher download quotas, ranging from 500GB to 1000GB and at monthly costs from $69.99 to $129.
Customers using Optus’ Fusion bundled plans, which come with a fixed-line home telephone included, can use their quota at any time during the day or night — in contrast with some other terabyte plans on the market, which come in 500GB packages for each of the on-peak and off-peak time periods.
However, a new ‘Naked’ stand-alone or mobile bundled plan for $69.99 is also available with two 250GB quotas — one for on-peak time periods (between 12 noon and 12 midnight) and off-peak (12 midnight to 12 noon).
According to an Optus ststament (PDF), customers on the Fusion 99 and Fusion 109 plans had previously had only 15GB and 30GB of download quota available to them — now they’ll have 500GB, meaning the telco has today delivered quota increases of 485GB and 470GB to those plans.
“Our customers are telling us that they want more all-inclusive bundles and higher data options from their fixed broadband plans — and that’s what we’ve delivered, said Gavin Williams, Optus’ Consumer marketing director, who only stepped into the role recently, after previously being the acting managing director of Optus’ Wholesale and Satellite division.
Optus has also canned excess data charges from the new Fusion plans, meaning that customers’ speeds will be shaped to 256kbps after they exceed their monthly limit. And new international calling rates have been brought in on the $109 and $129 Fusion plans.
The non-Fusion plans, however, have a lower speed cap — just 64kps if customers exceed their limit.
“Optus is committed to providing our customers with services which not only offer substantial value but are intuitive and easy to understand,” said Williams. “The elimination of excess usage charges will enable customers to better manage their bills. Likewise, not restricting customers with peak and off peak times on our Fusion offers, will ensure customers can use their data as and when they want to without having to worry about watching the clock.”
In addition, Optus is waiving its $79 connection fee for customers who connect to a Fusion plan before January 31 next year.
Image credit: Screenshots of Optus marketing material
Naked or stand alone is actually $79.99 per month for 250/250GB peak and offpeak.
http://personal.optus.com.au/web/ocaportal.portal?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=Template_woRHS&FP=/personal/internet/nakedbroadband&site=personal
Optus still don’t get it…. So on ADSL you get shaped to 256k…. on cable with 1/4 of the downloads allowed you get shaped to 64k!?
What the hell optus?? I think you have these around the wrong way. Sure reward the person who just used 1TB of data by giving them 4x the shapred speed of a cable person.
@level380 The Optus plans are identical if your on DSL or Cable, same well everything.
The reason why the $129 plan is shaped to 256k and the $79.99 (or $69.99 bundled) is because, surprise surprise they’re paying more money every month :)
@yep, infact your paying MORE per MB on the lower plans (15.9 cents per MB) compared to the higher plans (12.9 cents per MB). So as a reward for paying more per MB, they reduce your speed.
It’s great to see aussie telco’s getting realistic with data allowances.
Of course, they’re already too late. TPG are offering unlimited (and that’s REAL unlimited, not Optus “unlimited”) for $69 per month. I believe there’s others who also have real unlimited now, too. Here’s hoping the unlimited plans make the transition to the NBN…
I’ve never used more than 100GB in a single month, though, so not sure whether there’s really much difference between 1TB and unlimited…
24 month contracts are just lame in todays competitive environment.
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