NBN Discussion

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The last thing I want is to bundle services from unrelated providers. If a provider wants to give me special pricing, then do so, I don't want it if it requires a consumer relationship with someone else.

 

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However, Amaysim advised that to instate the service the property had to be upgraded to FTTP

Yes, a lot of FTTC is now FTTP by default.

At my place we were given FTTC. Enquiries to upgrade just my place cost > $6,000.

But then NBN decided to upgrade the street to FTTP for free. They had to dig in a couple places where the underground conduit collapsed. The total conduit length was 60-70m and they pulled the fibre from the telegraph pole.

Prior to the free upgrade, a paid upgrade , would have pulled bespoke fibre about 1km from down the street when the main junction is and not from the adjacent telegraph pole.

 

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With all that, I am now running FTTP at 25/5 for $40 per month until March when it would go up to $60 per month.

Interesting - when they originally brought in the free FTTC > FTTP upgrades they had a minimum service speed requirement of 100mbps for upgrade. A long time back (maybe a year ago?) my ISP reached out to encourage me to upgrade to FTTP from FTTC on a 50mbps service which surprised me, looks like if they'll upgrade for a 25mbps plan now they've probably dropped the speed requirement entirely.

At the time it didn't really offer me any huge benefit, FTTC was actually pretty good - but I had since upgraded to 100/20 which then got me a bump to 500/50 under the recent FTTP speed upgrades, and then I switched to Launtel which lets me change speeds on a daily basis depending on my needs (not cheap but super flexible) - so right now I'm on a 1Gbps plan - so I guess the NBN upgrade push is pretty smart on their part, within 12 months I've gone from 50mbps to 1gbps (or less, depending on what I choose on any given day)