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 National broadband company Internode has stripped
$10 from its entry-level Naked ADSL2+ plans by introducing its first
dialtone-free broadband services costing less than $50 a month.
With no third-party line rental charges,
Internode’s Naked ADSL2+ services offer a monthly saving of $20 or more
compared to paying for separate voice and broadband services. They continue to
deliver savings through access to Internode’s popular NodePhone Voice over
Broadband phone service.
Internode’s Home-NakedExtreme-5 service,
which operates on Internode equipment, provides a fixed price NakedExtreme
ADSL2+ service with a five-gigabyte (GB) monthly download quota. The Internode
Home-Naked-1, running off Optus Wholesale equipment, offers a similar service
with a 1GB monthly data quota.
Both new services cost $49.95 a month. Internode
has also introduced static IP SOHO versions of these new plans for $59.95 and
$69.95, with high upload speeds via Annex M on NakedExtreme.
Among a raft of measures that deliver more customer
value, Internode has launched a range of NodePhone2 service bundles and doubled
the size of its Data Blocks without increasing their price.
Internode Product Manager Jim Kellett said
the new plans and service offerings were aimed at making broadband more
affordable for customers. “People are feeling the pinch with high petrol
prices, rising food costs and large mortgage repayments,” he said.
“By introducing new price points for our
plans and delivering more value with existing services, we are helping people
to upgrade to broadband or move up from a first generation broadband service.
“The
beauty of an Internode Naked ADSL2+
service is that it saves monthly line rental costs and continues to
deliver
savings by providing our customers with 18-cent untimed national calls
and low-price international and mobile call rates. It can be a real
boost for the
budget.”
NodePhone bundles cut call costs
Internode has
undertaken major revisions to its popular NodePhone2 Voice
over Broadband telephone plans, based on providing prepaid monthly bundles that
deliver much more value.
For example the new NodePhone2-Starter Plan costs $5 per month with
a $10 call credit, with no limitations on the type of calls made. The NodePhone2-Value
Plan costs $10 per month with $20 of included calls. The NodePhone2-Premium Plan
costs $20 per month with $40 worth of included calls.
Internode’s NodePhone2-Special
Plan – which is available only to Internode Naked ADSL2+ and NakedExtreme
ADSL2+ customers – has no monthly fee, but comes with $10 of included calls.
Unlike many other VoIP
bundles, this call credit applies to any type of call – to local, national,
mobile or international destinations. The new monthly inclusions apply to all
new signups, as well as all existing Nodephone2 accounts.
Doubled Data Blocks deliver twice the value
In another significant move, Internode has
doubled the size of its Data Blocks for the same price.
Data Blocks are an innovation introduced by
Internode last year as a download quota ‘top up’ program that provides a
user-friendly alternative to excess charges or slower speeds through ‘shaping’.
If a customer exceeds their broadband plan’s monthly download quota, he or she
can buy a “data block” of the size required to keep downloading at full speed for
a predictable cost.
The $5 Data Block doubles in quota, from 1
GB to 2 GB; and the $10 Data Block rises from 2 GB to 4 GB. Higher quota data
blocks offer an even better effective rate; for example the popular $15 Data
Block now delivers an instant boost of 10 GB.
All details of Internode’s new plans and
revised service pricing can be found on the Internode website at www.internode.on.net/productupdates.
Internode is a first tier IP carrier
committed to using broadband technology to redefine the national
telecommunications environment. The Australian-owned company is a trailblazer
that delivers broadband services to individuals and businesses throughout
Australia.
Internode
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