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Re:The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen... by vacri on Tuesday January 07, 2014 @10:30PM (#7021497)
I'm just in the process of upgrading our office in the heart of Melbourne from ADSL2 to a 10/10Mb synchronous DSL. That costs us just shy of $600 per month. There is enough fat in that pricing that the vendor dropped around 10% off the list price with us just asking, no real haggling.

Our office in the heart of SF has 100/100Mb (admittedly, 'selected buildings only') for $50/month.

And this is just after us receiving an new government which scuttled the NBN that might have given us comparable service in 1-2 decades time. We're going to have expensive, slow internet for a long time.

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Re:The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen... by tacticus on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @12:49AM (#7021942)
You can look at other suppliers with fibre.

it will probably be quite shit but tpg offer that sort of service for 300$ per month (though they have a 5k installation charge )

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Re:The $200 Billion Rip-Off: Our broadband future was stolen... by vacri on Wednesday January 08, 2014 @06:11AM (#7022846)
I did look at exetel and one other one I can't remember, and they had similar pricing (all with ethernet-over-copper). We're going with Internode because their support is a known good.

My experience with TPG-by-friend is that they're wonderful until you need support. My personal experienc with Optus is that they obscure their help services, they have no tools for techies in small-medium businesses, they obscure their billing, they outsource support to terrible staff (last guy I had refused to even say anything), they have intentionally misleading marketing... and ugly corporate colours :)

I'm also not sure that fibre comes to the building (we're in an old building in the CBD) and assumed a high connection charge if it didn't... and we're only a dozen or so in the office. It's just that we have a couple of video editors, and when they upload, everyone moans...

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