Internode Fiber to the home — faster than a speeding bullet
By Gareth Powell
Internode, an Internet Service Provider, in Australia will be offer 100mbps Fiber-to-the-Home Service. Prices will start from $32 for 25mbps and be offered in 50mbps and 100mbps, retailing for under US$64.
Worth knowing that despite denials by communications commentators Internet Fiber-to-the-Home existed in Australia nearly 20 years ago.
It was when the local provider, Telstra, was experimenting with the idea and installed about a dozen homes in Centennial Park in Sydney with it on a trial basis. It came to the decision — subsequently shown to be false — that Internet fiber-to-the-home was inherently more expensive than other systems. On demand an ex-chief of staff of the Sydney Morning Herald will supply a statement to this effect. His was one of the houses in the experiment.
Internode has indicated it would work with housing estate telecoms provider, OptiComm, to connect the first home fiber service at Fernbrooke estate in Queensland, which includes more than 1,000 dwellings.
OptiComm will also be delivering the home fiber in Lochiel Park and Northgate in South Australia.
No mention of the City of Botany Bay — there is such a place — where this is being written.
Internode managing director, Simon Hackett, said, ‘Our testing shows that Internode Home Fiber service is working extremely well, delivering outcomes at up to eight times faster than the National Broadband Network target speed of 12 Mbps.’
For each household that subscribes to the Home Fiber, the get home services chucked in as a bonus.
IDC telecommunications program manager, David Cannon, said it was a good offering and a good example of how greenfield estates should be built.
In ARN he said it should also be set as an example of where government legislation should come into place for any greenfield residential development activity to ensure communications and utilities infrastructure is at the top end of what’s available.
He made no mention of the City of Botany Bay. Pity.
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