It is a huge week for the Australian national high -speed network, because the NBN speed upgrades that have been stained and spoken in the past 12 months are officially live.
As we expected, all retail service providers (RSP) have not yet updated their websites (and some have even said that even if they will honor NBN CO upgrades, changes will not be deployed before October), but on the basis of suppliers who to have Pushed through updates, we can already see a fairly clear image of what the new NBN 500 plans, in particular, can offer to Australians.
A word: value.
High speed, low price
When Nbn Co announced for the first time the upgrades of the plan of this month, he said that they would not arrive at any additional cost for RSP. We hoped of course that it meant that customers would not be invited to pay anything more and, depending on what we have seen so far for the new NBN 500 level, this has been largely the case. The result is a set of NBN plans which now offer up to 500 Mbps of download speeds for prices which, a few weeks ago, would only make you 100 Mbps. Indeed, it is an increase of 5x for free.
In the table below, we have chosen a handful of suppliers now offering NBN 500 plans, to give you a good indication of the price type that you can expect to pay. We have chosen cheap options such as Spintel and Kogan Internet, alongside more expensive Alternatives from Origin Energy. The origin is currently the most expensive supplier of those we are monitoring, but we imagine that this will change once it will activate its upgrades.
In the past 18 months, we had already noticed that the best NBN 100 plans had started to offer a much higher value than their slow nbn 50 counterparts, the average monthly cost of the faster option generally cost less than $ 10 to more than each month. Now that the plans of 100 Mbps have transformed into plans offering 5 times the speed of the same price, the plans of 50 Mbps even look like worse value.
To paint a clearer image, we will use Spintel as an example. The Telco still offers a NBN 100 plan (probably for customers on older NBN connection technologies which are not yet able to take advantage of the plans boosted by speed) alongside a new NBN 500 plan which has the lowest introductory cost of any supplier at the moment at only 64 p / M $.
The slower plan of 100 Mbps of Spintel? It starts at 68 p $ on before settling at the same rate current as its new counterpart of 500 Mbps of $ 86.95p in. Not only does this mean that you will pay less in the first year in faster level, but ultimately, you would pay exactly the same amount in progress.
What you need to upgrade
Last week, we detailed everything you needed to get these new NBN plans at high speed. The main criteria are to have the right type of connection. This is the fiber to the premises (FTTP) or a hybrid fiber coaxial (HFC). If you have one or the other, you can immediately register for a new NBN 500 plan.
If you have none of these connections, it is very likely that you are eligible for the free upgrade of NBN CO, which allow the required equipment in your premises. If you are in an eligible area and want a faster high speed, we really see no reason why you would not take advantage of. Not only will you be able to experience much faster and more reliable internet speeds at home, but you will also assure yourself that your house is the test of the future.
You can see our favorite NBN 500 plan options so far in our dedicated guide, or you can see a price mixture of the NBN 500 and NBN 100 plan in the widget below. The price comparison widget visualizes perfectly how much of the new plans are affordable, compared to the slower options they replace.
