New Daily: 'Cheaper and faster than NBN’: Optus rolls out ‘5G Home’ wireless broadband
The New Daily spoke to Alex Choros and included the following quote in their article:
"Industry expert Alex Choros, managing editor of telco comparison site WhistleOut, said Optus’s 5G home wireless broadband “seems pitched directly as an NBN alternative”.
“Priced at $70 per month, it’s the same price as Optus’ cheapest NBN plan. The key difference between the two is speed,” Mr Choros said. Optus’s $70 per month NBN plan is configured on the NBN 50 speed tier, and Optus says customers should get around 40Mbps during peak periods (7pm-11pm). Optus also has an NBN 100 plan billed at $100 per month, with typical speeds of 80Mbps during busy periods. By contrast, Optus claims that customers trialling 5G Home are currently experiencing average speeds of 164Mbps during peak times, with speeds reaching as high as 400Mbps during non-peak times.
“If Optus is able to consistently deliver these same kind of speeds over 5G, its 5G home broadband offering works out to be cheaper and faster than most NBN plans,” Mr Choros said.
“Looking more broadly, NBN 50 plans tend to start at around $65 per month when you exclude promotional discounts and NBN 100 plans at around $85 per month.”
"Another advantage 5G Home Broadband holds over the NBN is that it is “plug and play”.
“You don’t need to wait for a technician to get connected so you can get online the same day you get your modem,” Mr Choros said.
However, Optus 5G is “still in its infancy”, he warned, with fewer than 140,000 premises currently able to connect to the network.
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