[LINK] NBN pricing may dull broadband benefits: economist

[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:11 AM 12/03/2013, Gordon Keith wrote:
>For users at the lower end I suspect the price sensitivity is on quota not
>speed. You could have all the advantages of price discrimination without
>losing then potential benefits of future high speed applications (which will
>increase customer demand for quota) by having all plans at full 
>speed but have
>the price scale with quota.

I never touch the top of my quota of 50G/mo, not even close. The most 
I've ever used in a month is 12G in August last year, no idea why, 
possibly video catch-up and updates. Average is around 6-7/mo 
download. Highest upload was 1.37 in a month, probably photos. If I 
had a choice, I'd get better speed for better performance of webpage 
service. Streaming works OK, but can get laggy, even with the much 
higher speeds than I used to get when Internode took the throttle off 
us poor things out in the burbs on ADSL only. Nearer instant 
provision of webpages and sped up software updates would be appreciated.

I think the demand will increase in the video space as people get 
sick of putting up with commercial free to air TV and discover the 
net as an option and start to take advantage of their new you beaut 
smart TVs as part of the mainstream. That will put the need for both 
speed (which enable the quality of service improvements) and quota 
because of the desire for more product via this service, as well as 
multiple devices in homes relying on the feed.

Gordon, are you sure the cheapest is 1Mb/sec?? That's awfully slow. 
I'm getting 8Mbps on ADSL. Maybe you meant 10? I sure wouldn't pay 
$30/mo for 1Mbps.

Jan



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