Wednesday, 7 July 2021, 1:55 pm
Skinny, Vodafone and Flip all chase broadband customers
looking for low prices. How do the uncapped fi
xed
wireless broadband plans compare with the lowest cost fibre
option?
Skinny now sells an uncapped fixed wireless
broadband plan for $60 a month. It’s $10 cheaper if you
are a Skinny mobile customer.
Vodafone has a similar
product selling for $65 a month. Again, it’s $10 a month
cheaper if you have a mobile plan.
These two new uncapped
deals give the broadband market a new burst of
competition.
At first sight they are roughly in-line with
the least expensive fibre broadband plan. That would be
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The ACCC just released its most recent Measuring Broadband Report, and for the first time ever it has revealed just how fast NBN 1000 actually is.
NBN 1000 stands for 1000Mbps. But in the real world you’re unlikely to ever get this. This is because there are a myriad of things that can impact your connection speed from the hardware you’re using and congestion to the type of NBN connection you’re on.
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 2:27 pm
Vodafone’s FibreX service was in the news this week.
What is the story behind the Fair Trading Act court
case?
At the Auckland District Court Judge Pippa
Sinclair found Vodafone guilty of nine Fair Trading Act
charges over its FibreX brand. Sentencing will take place
later this year.
The judge said she found the branding and
advertising was liable to mislead customers into thinking
FibreX was a fibre-to-the-home service.
In this case, the
branding is the name: FibreX. To a causal observer, the name
suggests it is a fibre broadband product. As we shall see
later, FibreX is close to being fibre, but it is not the