Also unsure but I hear that America Canada etc all plans are unlimited data u pay higher price for the better speeds eg 5mb s 20 month 10mb s 30 month etc all unlimited would be great

That’s not true anymore at all. American ISPs are moving to caps because of teh HUGE increase in traffic from things like Netflix.

All Unlimited is not feasible currently. Maybe in 10 or 20 years time when data costs come down substantially, but not now.

Mobile calls are rarely included in any ‘unlimited’ type packs. Mobile calls are expensive to transfer between networks and particularly between landlines and mobile networks. Every time they are transferred, the originating network must pay a fee. This fee is much higher for mobiles then between landline networks (considering Telstra own ALL the copper and therefore are only virtually transferring the call via roughing, not physically on a different network). As Richard has pointed out, the unpopularity of international calls in general makes it a good gimmick to put in. Saying that, there would be many tens of thousands to whom unlimited international calls WOULD be attractive.

For us, a 12Mbps connection without a cap will be utter bliss.

“3.5 Mbit? HAH That’s blazing compared to what we have! My Da’ had to go out with two cans and a piece of string and scream binary to the bloke down the road to use his internet!”

I work in IT, and regularly frown when I see laymen getting it wrong.

Fair to say I am frowning at myself right now.

Indeed we don’t use 3TB/month – I never said we did. More like ~200-400gb during peak periods (but that can blow out at times). Unfortunately iinet provides a pretty pathetic off-peak window (2am-8am) so this household would end up coughing up $85/month for their 500gb plan (25/5mbit). On the other hand, TPG gives me as much data as I want, whenever I want for $60/month with roughly the same speed.

Consistency of speeds? I’ve never noticed a problem. Budget ISP’s have contention issues, regardless of whether you’re connected with Fibre or ADSL. My connection has been great!

They’re priced similar, but not the same. Skymesh, one of the best wireless RSP’s, has their 100GB wireless for $5 more than the equivalent 12Mbps fibre plan. Iinet has the same price, but doesn’t have a top level usage plan on wireless. And don’t forget, the bundling of copper landline, via Telstra, will be more expensive than a bundles NBN Uni-V port too.

It would be close to $20 difference once you take all of that into account.

And MT keeps promising 50 to 80 meg over copper on his FTTN proposal. How does he have the hide to keep saying this?

He said he would like to have two accounts at once.
1. TPG 12Mb unlimited for bulk data transfer that isn’t speed critical.
2. A 100Mb plan for when he needs things fast.

However, I hope that $20 per meg NBN charge is lowered 1st, before the cost of connection is reduced.

However, I hope that $20 per meg NBN charge comes 1st, before the cost of connection. I like unlimited plans :) and the peace they bring to the family. You would be suprised how much stress they reduce.

The iinet plan is data only, if you want a fixed land line it is an additional 9.95 per month.
TPG 12/1 unlimited with land line is 69.99
iinet 12/1 100G/100G with land line is 69.90

I know I would prefer to spend the extra 5c per month and never have to worry about peak/offpeak usage.