Cheap Broadband Plans

The actual speed of your broadband connection used to be a bit of a lottery on ADSL (and still is for users of that technology) – the closer you were to the local telephone exchange, the faster your broadband was. That’s changed with the arrival of the NBN, with several “speed tiers” being made available at different prices for customers to choose from. For NBN plans in this category, providers have chosen the entry-level NBN 12 tier, which gives you a potential download maximum speed of 12 Mbps, and uploads at 1 Mbps. It’s a speed tier that won’t be setting any records for fastest downloads, but it’s actually about equal to what the average ADSL connection would get – and often a little faster. If it’s just the basics you’re doing, from web browsing to email to phone calls, this speed tier is going to be all that you need.

Nobody likes being locked into a long-term contract of a year or even two with a broadband provider. It’s a fast-moving industry, and there’s frequently new prices and offers showing up that could potentially give you even better value and an even cheaper broadband plan. So it’s great to see that all of the plans in this category are contract-free, meaning your only obligation is to pay for the first month that you use. If you decide to cancel and try a different provider after that, there’s no penalty. There may, though, be a “setup fee” of some kind. Once a necessity in the ADSL days (it cost money to get a tech to set up your ADSL connection at the exchange) the setup fee is rapidly becoming extinct in the NBN age. You’ll still find them around, but not on our cheap broadband plans – not even Sky Muster satellite plans, despite those involving an NBN tech installing a satellite dish on your roof!