Kirk Jackson's Page of Words - TelstraClear Broadband prices rising?

Friday, June 06, 2008

I was surprised to see that the price of TelstraClear bundled plans are rising at the end of the month.

Looking at the old and new pricing pages, the main price rises seem to be in plans with broadband. Some of them increasing by $120/year:

Phone, TV and cable modem	Old	New
2Mbps & 1GB/mth	$98.02	$103.01
4Mbps & 5GB/mth	$108.02	$113.01
4Mbps & 10GB/mth	$118.02	$123.01
10Mbps & 20GB/mth	$138.02	$148.01
10Mbps & 40GB/mth	$168.02	$178.01
10Mbps & 80GB/mth	$208.02	$218.01
25Mbps & 120GB/mth	$298.02	$298.01*

_{* Curiously, this plan dropped by 1 cent!}

How can this be? Surely internet prices should be steadily dropping, not increasing? Especially as more households and businesses in New Zealand get broadband.

Perhaps it's because TelstraClear got voted Best ISP, they can put their prices up?

Maybe it's to support infrastructure upgrades and top-end plans?

Maybe they are matching Telecoms prices?

Whatever the reason, I'm surprised at the increase -- broadband should be getting cheaper and faster (pretty darn quick?) rather than slower!

Kirk

posted on Friday, June 06, 2008 9:52:16 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

Comments [4]

Friday, June 06, 2008 11:11:58 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

Yikes!

I haven't had to deal with UK telecoms yet, but god, it's soo much better over here when it comes to broadband.

Virgin Mobile seem to be a good comparison for Telstra; Cable, TV and phone.

http://allyours.virginmedia.com/websales/product.do?id=15157

For £16 a month (NZ$40) you'd get unlimited downloads at 4mb, with it being upgraded to 10mb around the place, 40 channels of digital tv (including that cool BBC-iplayer so you can catch up on the weeks tv), and unlimited weekend UK landline calls.

Adam Burmister | adamAT NOSPAMflog dot co dot nz

Friday, June 06, 2008 11:31:29 PM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

So that sounds better and much cheaper than the $123 plan over here. Surely the Southern Cross doesn't add that much to costs. Go figure...

Kirk Jackson

Saturday, June 07, 2008 12:06:04 AM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

Especially dodgy since they've been paying us rebates for how shoddy the speeds have been for about six months now (and they should have been paying it for six months before that!).

Doesn't strike me as a wise thing to do while we're reading announcements of Vodafone entering the market too.

My 0.02c.

- JD

John-Daniel Trask | jdAT NOSPAMmindscape dot co dot nz

Saturday, June 07, 2008 12:38:35 AM (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC+12:00)

I've had a few slow days lately too... still, it's got to be better than ADSL, right?

Kirk

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