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Escapenet Opticomm Fibre Estates Only 1000/400mbps $199pm + $99 Joining Fee

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The recent Aussie broadband deal is great for people on a suitable nbn network, but I am moving into an Opticomm Fibre to the premise estate soon and have been waiting for a gigabit connection to be offered by their suppliers.

Escapenet is offering 1000/400mbps residential connects for $199pm with a $99 joining fee no contract. Good deal for a niche community who live in Opticomm Fibre Estates and willing to pay extra for gigabit connection with high upload rates.

Edit: just noticed the 1TB limit, this deal is shit lol.

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  • +9

    Good speed but 1TB limit, less than 2.5hrs to use your entire quota.

      • +2

        Why exactly would you want a 1000mbps connection if you're NOT a heavy user?

        • -1

          Because the speed of a connection (particularly upload) is important for interactive services.

          For example Grandma who wants to video conference with the kids in 4K for 30 minutes once a week. Why should she be forced to pay for someone downloading continually.

          The smartest part of Labor's NBNCo Corporate Plan was the usage based (CVC) pricing as it provided for future revenue. The dumbest part was speed tiers (AVC).

          • @mathew42: Ok, I'll rephrase the question.

            Why exactly would Grandma need a 1000mbps connection for a 30 minute weekly video call?

            • @callum9999: Because Labor's recommendation in the NBNCo Corporate Plan is a minimum of 100Mbps symmetric connection for video conferencing applications. Examples given for tele-health and remote education.

  • I guess it is time for me to move house

  • +6

    Crappy offer, all other offers are unlimited. What's the point of offering high speeds with such low data limits.

    • No bandwidth capacity, so force low downloads from high speed plans so bandwidth remains unused.

    • Because it enables that capacity to be equally shared amongst all customers. Just like the road system, a suburban street has excess capacity, but that feeds into major roads and then congested freeways.

  • +1

    Yeah 1TB is not enough.

  • +1

    Yikes, i would run into trouble pretty quickly if you gave me a 1TB cap on a 1000/400 connection… and i certainly wouldn't pay $200 a month for it. Maybe there is a niche market for it though?

    • Not with this cap. Unless they don't count uploads.

  • I would pay $250 for a truly "unlimited" gigabit plan, but the only one I found is offered by Citycomms with $379pm, which is way too high. With 400mbps uploads, it is much better than the NBN 1000/50.

  • +1

    Good grief…there is no way I could justify spending $200 a month on internet

  • Wait for price increase come Jan 2021 - $7.10

    • Its not NBN

    • Labor structured the NBN so that profitable services in high density suburbs (e.g. Melbourne & Sydney) would subsidise rural and remote areas. Like Telstra the cost of building and operating different parts of the network are opaque. Labor started the FTTP roll out in some areas that were already reasonably serviced (at least compared to ADSL) by HFC to eliminate competition.

      Commercial operators continued their pre-NBN FTTP / FTTB roll outs, and are able to sell at a cheaper cost / provide a better service.

      The $7.10 is the equivalent of the old universal service obligation (USO) and just like that charge we don't know if it is delivering value for money. SkyMuster will be obsolete once SpaceX Starlink is operational simply because the StarLink service will be 30ms latency, not the 600ms latency currently offered. The good news is it might be cheaper for NBNCo to simply boost SkyMuster to a graveyard orbit and stop paying operating costs but we cannot tell because the costings have been hidden.

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