Internode has reached nearly 70 percent of the Australian users through their ADSL2+ services. Cost for broadband has been revised, combo plan a combination of broadband along with telephone costs $49.95 for a month, if the subscriber wants to use a third party line he has to spend $59.95 per month. Subscribers will be offered 128Kbps when the data limit exceeds 50GB.

Through 550 zone 1 Telstra exchanges Internode has expanded its ADSL2+ connection. It offers a good coverage with sub-exchanges and for RIM connected subscribers. Fast plans of Internode have also been revised with a wide choice of price and download limits. ADSL2+/ADSL1 are available throughout the nation. Present customers can remain on their current plans or shift to FAST plan through their online website. The company stated that, ‘Existing Internode Easy Broadband services have been rebranded Internode Easy Broadband Classic, and all new signups to Internode Easy Broadband will be provisioned with the new version of the plan’.

Prices of the Home broadband plans are slashed by internode, while both data downloading and uploading will be counted in the monthly quota. Moreover it will be cutting down the price of 100 megabit per second (Mbps) by 35 percentage. FTTH plan has been slashed down from $65 to $119.95. Also the company has come up with new plans of 200GB, costing from $129.95 to $159.95.

Internode has increased data quota for its entry level plan of $49.95, with a 10GB extra data which now has 15GB data quota. Moreover the upload and download speed of the data will be high for the new users.

Jim Kellett Product manager of Internode quoted that, “As this technology moves from novelty to normality, market forces are starting to kick in. With our partner Opticomm, Internode is learning how our customers use their FTTH services and what services they most want.”

The company will be counting both the upload and download speed of the monthly quotas in their new FTTH plans.

Jim also added that, “We are also starting to see increased business utilisation of our Fibre services, so we’ve made important changes to our range of SOHO plans such as introducing static IP addresses and offering quite radical upstream speeds, such as 16 Mbps for our 100 Mbps SOHO plans”