National broadband trailblazer Internode today launches Internode Easy Broadband, a jargon-free plan designed for customers who want the best-value Internet access they can get for $49.95.

In a game-changing move, Internode is offering consumers the widely available, easy-to-choose plan with a huge 30-gigabyte (GB) data quota and other complicated decisions removed from the equation.

Internode Easy Broadband is a radically different broadband plan to Internode’s traditional plan table which offers a wide – but sometimes confusing – array of prices, speeds, DSLAM network types, DSLAM coverage tables and data quotas.

Internode managing director Simon Hackett said Internode Easy Broadband was totally different to anything else his company had offered. “It’s to solve the problem of decision paralysis,” he said.

Broadband trailblazer Internode today becomes the first ISP to use the new Basslink fibre-optic cable service, which boosts capacity and cuts the cost of transferring data to and from Tasmania.

As well as virtually halving the data backhaul cost across Bass Strait, the Basslink service increases Internode’s data capacity to Tasmania by more than 150 per cent. It also provides greater certainty of uninterrupted services for Tasmanian customers by creating an additional redundant data path.

The Basslink service launch follows Internode’s announcement that its $10 million national network expansion will deliver a 500 per cent increase to its direct presence in Tasmania. This accelerated investment program will see Internode install its own DSLAM (Digital Subscriber Line Access Multiplexer) equipment at an additional 10 telephone exchanges in Tasmania – five times more than Internode’s current Tasmanian footprint of two exchanges.

Internode managing director Simon Hackett said Basslink’s extra capacity and lower prices would allow Internode to compete more aggressively for business in Tasmania. “As well as virtually halving the cost of data backhaul across Bass Strait, Basslink allows us to exploit economies of scale,” he said.