Vividwireless unveils $75 unlimited broadband plan

By Ry Crozier on Jul 5, 2010 6:29 AM
Filed under Telco/ISP

Aggressive pricing against fixed-line offers.

ISP vividwireless has introduced an unlimited downloads plan on its WiMax network that puts it in line with competitive fixed-line offers.

The new unlimited offer is $75 per month, according to a statement issued by the ISP overnight.

The only restriction is that customers can only have one wireless modem per unlimited plan, vividwireless said.

The move adds fresh competition to the unlimited internet market, which to date has been dominated by the likes of AAPT and TPG's fixed-line offers.

TPG's 24/7 unlimited plan is at a price-comparable $75 a month ($1 extra for line rental).

AAPT's 24/7 unlimited service costs a shade under $100 per month for ADSL2+ ($10 a month extra for those in an ADSL1 area).

Vividwireless also said it had doubled the download quota on its entry level $19 plan to 2 GB and cut the price of its 10 GB plan by 10 percent.

Vividwireless said last month that average downlink speeds on its Perth network are hovering around 9.53 Mbps.

It is also just weeks away from switching on its high-speed wireless network in Sydney and Melbourne.

Vividwireless unveils $75 unlimited broadband plan

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"Agreed. If evryone (or even much more than 10% of net customers were on wireless, the speeds would collapse and push the percentage much higher and forget TV services. Already the entertainment ..."

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Comments: 5

EMwyres Jul 5, 2010 8:36 AM	The bottom line is that although wireless is excellent, and obviously the only option when you are "mobile" - wireless simply cannot compete with fixed line in terms of reliability and latency. All the bozos who are suggesting that wireless is the cheaper and "better" option for the NBN simply don't know what they are talking about.
singo79 Jul 5, 2010 10:22 AM	EMwyres +1 I totally agree, wireless is in no serious way a competitor to the NBN and it's FTTH network. Companies like Telstra and Vividwireless can claim all sorts of speeds that they like, but at the end of the day they are all theoretical and most of which are tested in controlled environments. Let all the n00bs sign up for slow, unreliable, congested wireless broadband, while the rest of us people with half a brain take full advantage of the speeds currently offered by ADSL2+ and the future FTTH NBN.
anonymous Jul 5, 2010 11:23 AM	+1 x 2 above. The "we don't need an NBN" brigade don't get a couple of things - that in 20-30 years time bandwidth requirements will be far more than they are now; and wireless has no hope of providing the full suite of capacity, latency etc, even now, let alone then. And for the doubters, yes I'm aware of Moores's Law, but I'm also aware that it applies to demand as well as supply ;-)
umbria Jul 5, 2010 11:37 AM	Watch this space for the vividwireless leech story in a month or so. By the time a dozen torrenting uni students get their $75 unlimited plans going, we will see how useful the other new customers find their service to be. I hope I am proved wrong. And +1 to earlier comments that FTTH is in a league of its own, with mobile solutions providing email and web convenience but likely to remain unsuitable even for VoIP phone calls, let alone video.
Pilotyoda Jul 11, 2010 1:48 PM	Agreed. If evryone (or even much more than 10% of net customers were on wireless, the speeds would collapse and push the percentage much higher and forget TV services. Already the entertainment industry in this country has had its (wireless microphone) removed making it more difficult and expensive to service performances.. I will have a laugh when the taxpayer has to foot the bill for new systems for the politicians!