Rstuart,

I corrected my error immediately, which you selectively failed to mention.

You subsequently also made a simple math blunder. The NBN business plan is shaky, and if its extensive legal protection from competition is removed it will fold like a pack of cards.

rstuart, I have recently switched to internode after moving premises. I have the "easy naked S" plan, which gives me 150GB a month for $59.95, a VOIP service at $20 a month including $20 in calls and static IP, for $10 a month.

The plan was downgraded to the current 30GB shortly after I signed up, not long before the NBN plans were introduced, probably to provide some parity for comparison purposes but Internode have honoured the deal that was struck.

@Shadow Minister: I corrected my error immediately, which you selectively failed to mention.

You did Shadow, but you did it elsewhere. And guess what: I hadn't seen your connection when I posted above. I did post on both threads not long after I saw your posts, and you can see the order things happened in from the time stamps.

Also it was a lousy correction. You didn't correct: "Oh look, Internode is charging double for the NBN" to "Oh look: Internode's price for the NBN and ADSL is in fact exactly the same". That level of honesty is evidently beyond you. No, the correction was to point out that: "It's not twice, but Internode NBN's is more expensive than what I'm paying now".

@Antiseptic: probably to provide some parity for comparison purposes

There has been lots of comment about Internode's recent plan changes. http://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/16/reality-check-internode-is-not-price-gouging/ Internode has given their own explanation, which you have no doubt read. http://delimiter.com.au/2011/07/13/telstra-price-squeeze-hackett-slams-accc-inaction Whatever was the cause, it almost certainly had nothing to do with the NBN, and nothing I had read has said otherwise.

It is not hard to see why this is so. Internode's bread and butter comes from ADSL sales, and the market is price sensitive. The NBN is only currently available to a few suburbs in Tasi, the number of NBN customers Internode has must be tiny and it is going to remain that way for years yet. No company is going to risk making large price increases to the bread and butter product to make a political point about some niche product.

Rstuart,

When you can tell me how to undo a previous post, then you can criticise me for not doing so.

As for "Whatever was the cause, it almost certainly had nothing to do with the NBN, and nothing I had read has said otherwise." you obviously have not been looking.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/technology/cost-of-using-national-broadband-network-will-be-higher-than-promised/story-fn7celvh-1226099528083

"THE cost of using the National Broadband Network will be higher than promised, a major internet provider claims.

A basic $60 plan for speeds only a fraction of the broadband's capacity will see customers of Internode get just over half the internet capacity per month the Federal Government had modelled for $53-$58.

Internode managing director Simon Hackett said the Government's pricing model was flawed."