Speaker 1: There are new exhilarrated NBN plans coming in September. It
Speaker 1: can be hard to keep up with all the changes
Speaker 1: with the way the internet works and with the upgrades
Speaker 1: the NBN has been rolling out. At the end of
Speaker 1: the day, what do we want reliable internet, fast Internet.
Speaker 1: I just want to check in with our sponsors NBN.
Speaker 1: Jane McNamara is with the NBN and joins us. Hello Jane,
Speaker 1: good to be with you.
Speaker 2: Clinton.
Speaker 1: It does get a little bit confusing with all the
Speaker 1: different options there are now and the upgrades that you
Speaker 1: guys have been rolling out. You have upgrade and you're
Speaker 1: rolling out full fiber to the premises. What does full
Speaker 1: fiber to the premises mean?
Speaker 2: Absolutely? Look, your listeners will recall that we finished that
Speaker 2: initial roll out back in twenty nineteen, twenty twenty, connecting
Speaker 2: every home and business across the country to NBN, and
Speaker 2: to keep pace with that demand that we have on
Speaker 2: the NBN and our love to be online and need
Speaker 2: to be online, we've been rolling out upgrades across the
Speaker 2: country ever since. And nothing beats full fiber. That's fiber
Speaker 2: optic cable all the way from this to your front door.
Speaker 2: So lightning fastbroadband. You can't get more reliable and faster
Speaker 2: anywhere anywhere in the world. So you know, for one
Speaker 2: point four million homes and businesses across New South Wales,
Speaker 2: you know this fiber upgrade, full fiber to the home
Speaker 2: is now available and we've got these amazing accelerated speeds
Speaker 2: coming from the fourteenth of September, and we don't want
Speaker 2: anyone to miss out on the opportunity to get that
Speaker 2: upgrade in practice.
Speaker 1: In practice, what does the fiber upgrade actually mean? To
Speaker 1: have joined everyday Sydney family.
Speaker 2: So really what it means is we want our listeners
Speaker 2: this evening to think about the plan that they're currently on.
Speaker 2: And we know most Australians are on a mid pier plan.
Speaker 2: And what we know is with all those connected devices
Speaker 2: that we love to use, about twenty five at the moment,
Speaker 2: going to grow to more than forty usually that mid
Speaker 2: sized plan, with the number of people in the home,
Speaker 2: all of those devices at the one time this evening,
Speaker 2: you might notice that it's not performing how you think
Speaker 2: it should and that's the perfect sign an increased speed plan.
Speaker 2: So going up one plan and getting that fiber upgrade
Speaker 2: is the perfect solution to make sure it's ready for
Speaker 2: today and you know ten years from now.
Speaker 1: I live in the sutherland Shire and I've been fortunate,
Speaker 1: we've been connected. We're an anger thing. We've been connected
Speaker 1: to the NBN probably for about five years now, and
Speaker 1: I must have been I'm on that mid plan. I'm
Speaker 1: not on the top plane and on the mid plane.
Speaker 1: But I was reading about somebe who lives not far
Speaker 1: from me, Robin Cronulla, and they upgraded the top plan
Speaker 1: that the one hundred megabe per second, and the difference
Speaker 1: it made to them was significant.
Speaker 2: Absolutely, and you know it was funny. I read this
Speaker 2: story as well, and you know, Rob really noticed that
Speaker 2: the technology he is on it was part fiber but
Speaker 2: part copper. And so what we're doing with these upgrades
Speaker 2: is we're removing that copper so you've got none of
Speaker 2: that degrading copper in the meat, making sure that you've
Speaker 2: got fiber all the way to the home. And it
Speaker 2: was really simple for Rob. He actually just contacted his
Speaker 2: phone and internet provider, had a conversation, said what's available
Speaker 2: for me because this plan's not working anymore for my
Speaker 2: family noticing buffering and dropouts in the evening, and you
Speaker 2: know I want better, and you know the phone in
Speaker 2: internet providers of course sell the plans to you, me
Speaker 2: and our listeners, and he was advised that he could
Speaker 2: get an upgrade to full fiber placing the order going
Speaker 2: up one of those speed tier plans to the hundred plan,
Speaker 2: and there's no that triggers the upgrade for free, so
Speaker 2: you don't pay for the fiber upgrade. You might have
Speaker 2: a couple of dollars different in your plan, or maybe
Speaker 2: not because you know there's a lot of competition with
Speaker 2: one hundred and fifty retail service providers, so you might
Speaker 2: actually get a better deal and save some dollars by
Speaker 2: triggering this upgrade. But talking to your phone in internet
Speaker 2: provider to see if one of these upgrades you know
Speaker 2: is available to you is absolutely the first step.
Speaker 1: And Jane just lastly talking about saving dolls. It's into
Speaker 1: financial year and so many retailers have end of YEW
Speaker 1: financial year sales, and I know a lot of the
Speaker 1: providers and the resellers of internet services also do super
Speaker 1: competitive time.
Speaker 2: And you know, if you haven't checked your plan in
Speaker 2: a while, do it. Do it now, because we know
Speaker 2: that the phone and internet providers want your business, you know,
Speaker 2: talk to them about doing your deal. They're even bundling
Speaker 2: some of their services as well, so you might be
Speaker 2: able to get your NBN, you might be able to
Speaker 2: get your mobile and some of those streaming services all
Speaker 2: bundled up for a really competitive price. So you know,
Speaker 2: do your research, talk to friends and family, talk to
Speaker 2: your phone and internet provider, and maybe go to some
Speaker 2: of those independent websites that do all the hard work
Speaker 2: for you.
Speaker 1: Good on, Jane, thank you, Thank you j mcmahara from
Speaker 1: the NBN. You can go onto the NBN website and
Speaker 1: actually just type your addressing and see what's available for
Speaker 1: you in terms of upgrades. Great things are happening every
Speaker 1: minute on NBN. To find out more, visit that website.
Speaker 1: It is NBN dot com dot au