Well we have seen massive decreases in cellular prices over the years, about 50% a year. Meanwhile, the NBN keeps getting more expensive and is legislated to keep going up. In fairness, people are using more NBN data but cellular has still been going in a better direction.
This is because:
Funny how this is so political: For example in the pre Netflix days in Switzerland one could get 40 GBits/sec for 29.95. Post Netflix oh sorry we could sell a product labelled up to 10 GBits per second subject to time of day….
This is a good point that no one else has mentioned. Because we can consistently use it at the advertised speed, the costs increase.
Companies are unable to average out the entire customer usage like they did before video streaming and conferencing.
Hopefully we start seeing more 5G and private Cable competition. I’m fortunate my NBN works well and I hit my speed. But I tend to be the exception.
Around me, OPTUS seems to be growing their 5G network. Telstra not so much. So I’m a few years, I can see mass rejection of NBN.
I'm doing school through zoom at the moment - as we all are. It has never been more apparent what a poc 4G is compared to NBN.
4G/5G was always going to be the broadband answer for Australia’s large low density landscape. NBN is a white elephant.
I get unlimited downloads with 110/30 for $70/m on my NBN plan
Mobile phone plans have gone to the toilet. Have they really been getting cheaper? Last i saw you now have to pay for an iphone virtually outright and still pay $99/month
What do you think 4G runs over? Once your mobile signal reaches the 4G tower it relies on… wait for it… the NBN!
Aussie 4G/5G will never be cheaper, faster or more reliable then NBN it needs to operate over.
StarLink may change this economic/technical paradigm in the future, but that is yet to be proven.
4G runs over Telstra/Optus/Vodaphone fibre, not nbn.
They did not install an nbn caperble of supporting micronodes or anything other than a dedicated modem.
(OK in around 12% of places, the FTTP fibre is suited, but there is no interest in selling this service)
Mobile data is mainly used for novelty purposes, actual business is still through them wires 🤣🤦♂️
We will have to a wait for a Labor government to fix it, then the LNP and Murdoch will spend another 10 years blaming Labor for wasting money. And the cycle continues…
look we are american owned now so we will have to pay more for everything, thats all there is.
problem is wages will have to fall drastically because we are now broke after the yank's told scommo to give it away to business now.
thats ameristralia for you…
You mean United States of Australia
so many meaningless words - 'united states' - does anyone read trumps ravings and not get that the states are not united anymore…
scummos no different.
4g isn't what it used to be so the value isn't there. I also wouldn't say they're comparable, mobile data speeds are very varying. although when i was stuck on adsl1 it was better to use my mobile data.
The entry price for 4G data has been going down and the included value has been going up.
This will continue, with the introoduction of early 5G, and later fast 5G and big cell 5G.
It was expected that 4G would overlap about 20% of NBN services. It turned out to be over 50%, and more with 5G.
NBN has nowhere to go. The deployed model is not easily/cheaply upgraded, and many are running already at the bleeding edge of performance, and only a few have a performance increase in sight.
4G unlimited does not exist yet, but they do not need to make as much profit on capital invested years ago. Telstra and others have also diversified into offerings nbn was expected to address, but did not. IoT, in the form of M2M, Traffic sensors, Cameras and the like are now a multi billion dollar industry for Telstra.
4G data is becoming the cream on the cake not the cake its self.
4G has the issue of variability and latency. (these are addressed in 5G suite). Already prices are lower than higher speed nbn. Tangerine is offering 500G/m at 69. Uncapped speed. That would be 3-4x faster than my nbn internet.
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