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spindles · 04-15-2009, 06:06 PM

Welcome to Australia. Most of the DSL backbone is supplied by Telstra (once government owned), and there have been huge fights and regulation to force them to provide the last mile access to retail ISPs (that compete directly with Telstra Bigpond).

The last thing done was to allow other ISPs rack space inside the telephone exchange to remove this last mile monopoly. Telstra forced people to have a telephone line (and pay phone line rental) to have a DSL service, but there are now a few ISPs providing 'naked' DSL, that doesn't need an actual physical phone connected to it (and doesn't have to pay line rental.

Most of our internet plans have either a hard data limit, after which your speed is severely throttled OR you pay hefty data charges (my current plan has 20Gb included, and if I go over I pay 15c a Mb). This plan also includes all my phone calls within Oz for a fixed amount so for me isn't bad value. I'm rarely using all my allocated data so the limit doesn't really worry me.

Forgot to say - our federal government has just announced a $43Billion plan to lay fibre to 90% of the population. 100M minimum speed. It is going to take 8 years, but at least it is in the pipeline.

04-15-2009, 06:06 PM	#7 (permalink)
spindles Mine is an evil laugh Location: Sydney, Australia	Welcome to Australia. Most of the DSL backbone is supplied by Telstra (once government owned), and there have been huge fights and regulation to force them to provide the last mile access to retail ISPs (that compete directly with Telstra Bigpond). The last thing done was to allow other ISPs rack space inside the telephone exchange to remove this last mile monopoly. Telstra forced people to have a telephone line (and pay phone line rental) to have a DSL service, but there are now a few ISPs providing 'naked' DSL, that doesn't need an actual physical phone connected to it (and doesn't have to pay line rental. Most of our internet plans have either a hard data limit, after which your speed is severely throttled OR you pay hefty data charges (my current plan has 20Gb included, and if I go over I pay 15c a Mb). This plan also includes all my phone calls within Oz for a fixed amount so for me isn't bad value. I'm rarely using all my allocated data so the limit doesn't really worry me. Forgot to say - our federal government has just announced a $43Billion plan to lay fibre to 90% of the population. 100M minimum speed. It is going to take 8 years, but at least it is in the pipeline. __________________ who hid my keyboard's PANIC button? Last edited by spindles; 04-15-2009 at 06:10 PM..