nbn today announced changes to its wholesale pricing model aimed at making its business-grade services more competitive and flexible.
‘Capped’ wholesale monthly fee set to drive competition of nbn™ business products
From October 1 2017, nbn will introduce a new spend cap on its high bandwidth business products* enabling retail service providers to save on monthly wholesale charges.
The new pricing model has been developed to help retail service providers package up plans targeted at medium and enterprise businesses, those with between 20 and 200+ employees, which represent around 11.7 per cent of Australia’s total business market.
Designed to support both high download and upload speeds, the products will enable business-grade applications such as multiline voice, high-definition video conferencing and online backup which help businesses increase productivity, lower costs and improve customer service.
The pricing will vary based on the amount of bandwidth purchased by retail service providers each month, with nbn’s higher speed tiers expected to deliver the greatest reduction in overall costs.
The company undertook industry consultation ahead of announcing the new spend cap and confirmed it will replace the nbn™ Business Ethernet (nBE) product, which was scheduled to launch later this year.
Questions to ask before connecting your business to the nbn™access network:
- What business products are offered to replace my existing product?
- How much data/what plans based on wholesale speed tiers do I need?
- Will my existing services be affected?
- How should I prepare for the migration process?
- Will my devices be compatible?