Home-owners with large download needs will be pleased by Telstra BigPond’s new offering, called the BigPond Liberty 25GB plan, which provides 25GB of monthly data without excess download feed.Internet enthusiasts and networked homes will benefit from the $10 premium on BigPond’s Liberty 12GB ADSL plan, providing more than double the usage allowance for a relatively small price increase.
BigPond’s group managing director, Justin Milne, also announced price reductions of up to $70 per month (on a Super G Fast 3GB plan – reduced from $184.95 to $114.95 per month) for new and existing BigPond Wireless Broadband customers on selected plans on Telstra’s Next G network and speed upgrades for customers on Mobile G Fast 200MB plans.
“Our new plans and pricing reflect the changing way our customers want to use the internet, whether they’re at home, in the office or on the move,” he said.
“For ADSL and Cable customers, our BigPond Liberty 25GB plans recognise that customers are consuming increasing amounts of information online with the growing popularity of user generated content sites such as YouTube.
“It really is the ‘set and forget’ plan for families with networked homes. 25GB per month is an awful lot of data and even big families with several computers and devices connected to the net via BigPond should find that it’s more than enough, but if they do exceed their usage allowance they won’t be charged any more.
“Customers love our 12GB BigPond Liberty plan because there are no additional usage ‘surprises’. Home networked families will love BigPond Liberty 25GB even more.”
Customers who reach the 25GB monthly usage allowance on the Liberty 25GB plan will have their connection slowed to 64kbps for the remainder of their billing period rather than pay additional usage charges.
“Customers can still download as many BigPond movies, music, sport and games as they wish, as well as explore Web 2.0 innovations such as I-Pond and BigPond’s Second Life islands, without affecting their internet usage on a fixed broadband or usage based wireless broadband connection,” said Milne.