Monday, May 10. 2010Today We Start To See What May Happen.......John Linton ......in the fibre world. We will make the fibre services to the 1,800 of residences in Point Cook available for activation today as a 'symbolic' change away from offering ADSL2 as the highest speed residential data services offered to residential users in Australia. The pricing we are able to offer for these services is far from 'breakthrough' but they will give some sort of indication as to whether people are prepared to pay the sort of 'lower' pricing that Telstra believes is suitable for "fibre users". My personal expectations are that Exetel will not sell many of these services as we expect Telstra Retail to 'saturate' the potential buyers with marketing and money.
It will be interesting for us to see what prices Telstra Retail and any other provider that participates in this trial offer. While it is only a trial, and therefore pricing will not be indicative of what may be offered for a wider scale service, it will be an indication of a lot of other data about the 'thinking' of other providers and a sound indication of their relative efficiencies and their 'corporate needs'....only on an indicative basis though and therefore only useful in terms of what pricing is offered in the future via Telstra (if, in fact, there is a Telstra fibre future for wholesale services) and other fibre offerers....if the current government allows anyone else to offer fibre/other services in Australia in the future. I watched the Conroy interview on Channel 2 yesterday morning before heading off to our small family's Mothers Day 'celebrations'. He was his usual mixture of bewilderment, ignorance and barely concealed thuggery but I was amused at his reference to Exetel (not by name). When being questioned on the 'affordability' of the 'NBN2' to customers he made a reference to its affordability by citing the price that Exetel will be charging in Tasmania for 'NBN2' end user services. While I'm grateful for the 'free plug' (though how many Tasmanians in the fibred areas actually watch an ABC political segment on TV on a Sunday morning would be questionable) I thought it was an obvious example of "straw clutching" if it wasn't based on appallingly bad briefing which I would doubt because for him to have been aware of any actual pricing would have required some sort of briefing. Conroy's total disregard for the laws of the country call in to question his ability to be an elected member of parliament, let alone a cabinet minister, and is constantly demonstrated by his, I assume, impromptu thuggish aggression which in yesterday's instance came in the form of boasting that Telstra could never compete with the 'NBN2' because of the "much deeper pockets of the Federal Government" that could sustain whatever losses it took to drive Telstra out of business in fibre competition. I can't remember the exact words as I was being urged to "come on/we'll be late" but the impression was very clear. I wonder if the ACCC had been briefed on this financial strategy? Anyway - all the talk and bluster that anyone cares to indulge in is becoming irrelevant. Today the acceptance of 'commercial fibre services' gets under way via the 'trial' offers in Point Cook and we'll all be wiser as the days go by from now onwards. Copyright © Exetel Pty Ltd 2010 Trackbacks
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I was watching Inside Business and recognised the reference to Exetel so there was at least two people watching!
Sadly, I'm not in Tasmania though. Comment (1)
and most Tasmanians aren't in the 3 towns that are part of the trial.
What's interesting is that the demographics of the three towns selected will see Exetel as the only affordable option for the NBN so long as they get to hear about the pricing. Comment (1)
Looks like you got another free write (beat) up.
http://delimiter.com.au/2010/05/10/exetels-linton-thanks-conroy-for-free-plug/ Comment (1)
At the bottom of the article they mention the wireless plan offered to Exetel customers as a result of the off-peak period change and say that the cost is $1.75/MB. I noticed that the email sent out to Exetel customers didn't have any units on it, but assumed that it meant 1.75c per MB as that would be close to the current wireless plans. Is that correct?
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I live in Brunswick and am wondering whether Exetel have any plans to offer fibre connections when the network is rolled out, whenever that may be.
Conroy certainly isn't the master of subtlety, but at least the tide seems to be turning on Rudd and co. A one term Labour government... we can only hope. It'll take 10+ years with the Liberals to get us out of this mess, and it'll only be harder sans Howard or Costello. Comments (2)
We will offer services on "NBN2" wherever we are permitted to do so.
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I am a bit past being gouged for data, and am down loading Exetels' broadband plug (from Mother's day)
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/insidebusiness/video/podcast/r563046_3419129.m4v I urge the Tasmanians to use 'Broadband Choice' Comment (1)
A little off-topic but are you going to be releasing plans for the iPad. The biggest difference, I suppose, is can you supply microSIM cards - otherwise I'd be happy with the plans you already have available on your site?
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I was wondering about supply of microSIMs for new and existing Exetel mobile customers as well as I'm considering going with the 2010 iPhone model when it releases which is rumoured to also have the MicroSIM.
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It is something being looked at - we use Optus and it isn't an option at the moment.
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My 3G iPad arrives in a few weeks and also will be looking on the best deal for a microSIM for data only. I'm guessing there will be a reasonable demand for them and the new iPhones in June.
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