Price war with Telstra

iiNet doesn't expect to enter a price war with Telstra and Optus over pricing for broadband plans on the National Broadband Network, iiNet chief regulatory officer Steve Dalby has said.

Telstra and Optus haven't released their pricing but, however Dalby wasn't concerned that it would be undercut by their prices as Internode was by iiNet's, which was announced by the internet service provider this morning and to start on 3 October.

Along with its residential plans, iiNet as well announced tentative business plans that are $30 more expensive than those for residential clients. Dalby said that these plans would be clarified in the then few weeks.

Couple of weeks on the business plans

"We've got some exciting news probably in a couple of weeks on the business plans," he told journalists this morning. "What they're going to get with the NBN plans is a residential plan, if that's what they choose to run their business on, with much higher performance [just as a higher upload link] and probably more quota than they've got today."

Dalby wouldn't clarify if the company expects to announce these products earlier NBN Co unveils its own business wholesale product, which NBN Co said on Thursday that it was for all that working on.

The residential plans weren't complete either

Dalby said the residential plans weren't complete either, as a number of the products iiNet offers now are not but finalised on the NBN, including its FetchTV video product, which will use NBN Co's multi-casting and voice services. For now clients can have voice services on the NBN for $9.95 extra per month using iiNet's voice over IP product. Dalby said that changes may possibly be made on the product over the then decade.

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