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 National broadband company Internode today starts to convert
existing phone services to Naked ADSL2+ after demand for its inaugural, new
service only "Naked" plan topped 1000 within weeks.
Launched last month, Internode's Naked ADSL2+ plan offers
customers a broadband service without costly line rental charges. Over a dial tone-free
line, Internode provides its Naked ADSL2+ customers with an ADSL2+ broadband plan,
including the NodePhone1 voice-over-broadband phone service.
Internode initially offered Naked ADSL2+ only on new lines. From
today, April 14, Internode is taking orders to convert an existing phone
service to Naked ADSL2+, significantly widening its potential market.
Internode product manager Jim
Kellett said the first month's demand for Naked ADSL2+
services had outstripped expectations. "Our Naked ADSL2+ service is proving
extremely popular, with more than 1000 signups since we launched a few weeks
ago," he said.
"To meet that demand, we are offering to convert a current
telephone service to Naked ADSL2+ at any of the 350 exchanges where this
service is available. At $129, the 'Convert' option has the advantage of being
$20 cheaper than a new connection. It's also expected to be much quicker - typically
two to four weeks, instead of as long as six weeks."
Mr. Kellett
said the new Convert option would solve two problems identified in the first
month of Naked ADSL2+ installations:
- It allows people who live in
apartments, where phones are connected via in-building cables rather than
directly from the exchange, to order a Naked ADSL2+ service
- As
no on-site work is required, it eliminates the need for customers to take
a day off work to allow a telecom technician to connect up wiring in the
customer's premises.
Mr. Kellett said Internode was unable to accept Naked ADSL2+
orders from residents who lacked a continuous copper path to the exchange or
whose phone line used a Spectrum Shared ADSL service such as ADSL2+. "At
present, Telstra offers no process to move customers from Spectrum Shared to the
Unbundled Local Loop service required for Naked ADSL2+," he said.
"Such customers can move to Naked by disconnecting their
Shared Spectrum service first, before converting the voice line to Naked mode -
although this involves a period of ‘down time'. However, the one-step Convert process
will work fine if the line does not have ADSL or uses ADSL from a Telstra
DSLAM, such as BigPond or a Telstra Wholesale service used by many ISPs
including Internode."
For specific details about Internode's Naked ADSL2+ plans,
visit www.internode.on.net/nake
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