Australian ISP myKP to Offer Unlimited Data @ $79.95 Per Month
There’s a new Internet Service Provider joining the Australian Broadband scene that unashamedly admits in trying to ‘shake up the industry’. What’s it doing differently that the others aren’t? Claiming Internet access with no download caps, rarely heard of in the Australia ISP landscape.
For $79.95 a month the Company behind it all, myKP, will provide unlimited Internet access at speeds that will vary depending on location.
The company has apparently spent the past three years brokering deals to create a pick-and-mix approach of access technologies, backhaul providers and peering relationships. This should in turn enable them to deploy a multitude of connection methods to consumers, including ADSL, ADSL2+ and fixed-wireless rooftop solutions.
A launch date of the 26th of January, Australia Day, has been set, though it will only be offering it’s service on a limited basis to existing myKP Free Wi-Fi Community residents to begin with.
“Our Wi-Fi communities have enthusiastically supported myKP and will be the first to benefit, thanks largely to the innovative Local Councils and community groups that have supported our community project,” Said Director, Mr George Kaloudis
“The service is fully standards based and there are no download caps with one simple pricing plan”.
How the company will manage to pay for it all is of course the big question, as any ISP will know that offering an unlimited service to data hungry users is never a good idea.
The company says that it will be serving advertisements to it’s customers, saying that it will …
“Continue to work with advertisers and customers to refine the advertising component of the service as well as make it relevant,”
“There are roughly 22 councils we’re working with, they’ll get first dibs. Part of the initial limited release is really to test out some of the stuff we’re doing,” Kaloudis told myKP told CommsDay.
One of those council members, Kym Fuller, Community and Economic Development Manager for Wilcannia Council said.
“We are very excited to offer our residents a no download cap service. We are stuck with one radio station and one TV station but now we can listen to online radio and watch online TV without it costing more than a mortgage.”
“The full product details will be released on Australia Day and anyone interested can pre-register for an information pack via our website,” Said George Kaloudis.
Is it really possible for an Australian ISP to offer unlimited data? I would’ve thought not. Looking back over the years at the ones who have tried, such as Brisbane based DART, it seems not, with them going into receivership soon after.
What are your thoughts? Do you think it will work with the aid of advertising, what will be different? Do let us know.
its always been unlimited in france and some other countries. pple r obviously getting ripped off
Here in Australia, our internet links to the rest of the world are fairly shit, and pretty congested, and the companies that own those links charge by the megabyte. Also, we have one company that more or less has a monopoly on our net infrastructure. All of this means high prices and low limits. Yes we’re getting ripped off, and there’s nothing at all that we can do about it.
Telstra who probably owns most of the bandwidth is making a killing. There is no choice but to adhere to this stupid skeem of limits. Whats the point in fast speeds but you limited.
I’m from Greece and have currently moved to Australia for 2 years. I have to say that the speeds are more or less Europe like but the download limit sucks. I don’t know of any european country that has limit in their broadband. I got TPG here that at least is not counting the upload like as well like other ISPs do. And yes australians are getting ripped off. I’m paying 80$ a month for 50GB in peak and 100GB in offpeak hours (2ma-8am) and no telephone line. In Greece I used to pay the same amount for a 24Mbps ADSL2+ with no limits, land line included with free national calls and free international calls to 56 countries including mobiles in US and Canada….
well, i’m from the Philippines and we too don’t have any download limits here… although our speed can’t be compared to ISP in Australia.. but I’d rather have just a 2-3 mb connection with unlimited data than having a high speed connection that limits my downloading capabilities.. my mom and sister are currently living there in australia and are currently trying to find an isp that would provide unlimited data with a decent speed at the right price.. isp companies in Australia are pretty stingy..
As an Aussie living in Taiwan, I see the same. 10M, unlimited internet here costs under AU$30…. and that’s completely unlimited. Not even any of this peak and off-peak crap. I’m planning on moving back home next year, and with an online business, am hunting for good unlimited internet. Nothing.
Wow, Im scared, im coming to oz very soon, I qm english qnd have been living in france for the last few years, and have never had a limit on my connection. That really sucks it seems quite barbaric. Are you guys saying there arent any companies who have unlimited connections! Whats the point of havin a imited connection! Its ike haveing dial up all over again! do you not have internet based tv over there? like we have with bbc iplayer? I cant imagine its possible as a few hours of watching that would max out your connection!
Australia completely SUCKS with regards to internet. I am an aussie living in Japan and I don’t want to come back just because of the shite internet situation – how the heck do people run small online businesses with the horrible conditions imposed by isps???
I live, no joke, in a beautiful tiny rural town of ~5000 people, with corn fields and farms all around my house and 15m of snow through winter – but I have 100Mb fiber optic internet to my door (FTTH) with no limits whatsoever, for roughly AUD$60/month. And because I’m in the countryside, I don’t share that entire backbone fibre cable with hardly anyone (my neighbours are all 100+m away from me minimum, 1/2 the houses within a km of me are empty, and all the rest are old fogie japanese farmer types that don’t use the internet much anyway), so my speeds are blazing fast!!! I can get english-language cable TV with tons of channels via my fibre connection too if I want it, for an extra $20/month. I live in the BOONIES!!!!!! 2+hrs drive (in summer) from the nearest major city, which btw is barely bigger than Adelaide!!!! And more than 800km from Tokyo!!!!!! And my internet is better than most people dream of in the biggest cities in Australia!!!!!! WTF?!?!?!?!?
COME ON OZ, get with the f***ing program, and the rest of the world!!!!!!
Hurry up, mykp! What you’re offering here is what we NEED! If you don’t come by the time I get out of school – a few months away! – I might just move country anyway…
It’s that bad.
I don’t understand, the link to the mykp site posted at the top of the page links to their site, but there is nothing on it regarding internet plans or anything like that. It doesn’t seem like an isp’s webpage. Is that their main site? It seems unfinished. I want to sign up! I am with tpg but today found my speed has been throttled cos I have exceeded my DL limit. All I have been doing is watching episodes of Lost and downloading some music via torrents (my music collection was stolen when my ipod and macbook went missing from my flat after a break in), and now I have to sit with dial up speeds for the next 8 days.
Australia internet sucks!!!!!