- Internode announce 3G Broadband service
- Pricing plans announced
- “Data blocks” available for topping up service
Update: It is unknown what happens to your connection once you exceed your limit. Tech Wired is currently investigating this with Internode.
Update2: Internode product manager Jim Kellett has said that once you hit your data quota, you are redirected to a “captive portal” that allows you to order data blocks to increase your quota.
Coined NodeMobile, Internode will tomorrow launch its 3G wireless broadband data service that will allow customers to access the Internode network using existing Optus infrastructure.
The new service, delivered via the Optus 3G wireless broadband network, is able to be accessed by customers using a SIM card and wireless data modem.
Internode product manager Jim Kellett said NodeMobile Data was part of Internode’s strategy of offering its customers greater convenience and connectivity.
“It’s about giving our customers wireless broadband with extensive national coverage in Australia,” he said.
“While our first NodeMobile-Data plans provide mobile broadband with a dynamic IP address, over time we intend to develop a wider range of business-focused applications such as a static IP backup for Business ADSL and various types of connectivity to our Internode Business Connect private IP service.”
What’s the Cost?
Internode has announced two data plans, A 250-megabyte (MB) plan costing $14.95 a month and a three gigabyte (GB) plan for $39.95 a month.
Customers who sign up on to the 24-month plan will recieve the Internode branded USB dongle free, otherwise it will cost them $199 unless they wish to BYO their own compatible 3G device, for an establishment fee of $25 (including the SIM).
Unfortunately data quotas include both downstream and upstream data flows and there is no ‘unmetering’ or ‘shaping’ offered, though this is fairly normal in the 3G broadband scene.
Top up with “data blocks”
The NodeMobile Data service will also provide customers with the ability to buy “data blocks” above their monthly quota at the effective rate of four cents per megabyte, which Internode says is below typical market rates
Internode has said that the data blocks will ensure that customers don’t receive any “nasty surprises” in the form of large post-billed excess data charges.
Charges for data blocks are $10 for 250 MB; $20 for 500 MB; and $40 for 1 GB.
As predicted by Tech Wired on Saturday, TiVo has begun retailing with Internode. It is retailing with Internode at the normal Recommended Retail Price (RRP) of $699 and can be purchased online starting today. This is nothing spectacular, but a beginning to Internode’s relationship with Hybrid Television Services.
Internode is yet to announce the pricing of their bundled plans with Internode’s General Manager, Simon Hackett, telling users of Whilpool that TiVo and broadband bundled plans were:
“..still on the way,”
“What has been related today is conventional retail of TiVo products by Internode, separate to (i.e. not yet bundled with) plans.”
Adelaide-based Internet Service Provider (ISP) Internode continues to deliver good news, announcing this weekend Free WiFi access to anyone in the vicinity of the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG).
The ISP officially launched the service on Saturday, but said it was available ahead of schedule to ensure coverage was available for people attending the Sound Relief bushfire fundraising concert a couple of weeks earlier.
The MCG has signed a three-year contract with the ISP as it’s preferred supplier, allowing Internode to enter a a co-branding initiative of displaying their logo alongside the MCG’s on the landing page users will see upon use of the service.
Lisa Trainor, General Manager of Commercial Operations at the MCG said:
“This partnership with Internode has helped us to improve the services we offer and enhance the experience for visitors to the MCG,”
The service will be available for all events including AFL games as well as functions, conferences and receptions.
Internode is now managing the 26 wireless access points spread throughout the MCG of which are connected to Internode’s national network backbone.
Daryl Knight, Internode National Sales Manager said:
“By introducing Internode into the world’s greatest sporting arena, we expect to raise the profile of Internode and the services we offer to Home, Business and Corporate users,“
With over three million people visiting the MCG each year it’s a win win for all.
Internode seems to enjoy endeavoring on new innovative ventures, announcing just weeks ago a joint venture with TiVo.
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