No Contract Broadband Plans

No Contract Broadband – Better Than Ever

If there’s one thing we can be immensely grateful to the NBN for, it’s the rapid rise of broadband plan offerings that are available without having to agree to a long-term contract. Not too long ago, many people would have to be permanently locked into 12- or 24-month contracts just to get connected to the internet. Those days are vanishing fast, and that’s good news for you, the customer.

It’s not too hard to see why – in the pre-NBN years, the idea of offering plans on a contract got so popular. It all started with the rather sizeable connection fee that you were up for when connecting to ADSL broadband – a fee your provider couldn’t avoid, even if they owned their own ADSL hardware at your local phone exchange.

Getting you connected meant a Telstra tech had to physically visit the exchange to make changes to your phone line, which of course came at a cost, and that was naturally passed on to the customer via their internet service of choice. But nobody likes the idea of paying a hefty up-front fee just to set up a service so they can pay someone to use it. Plans on a contract soon followed, with the promise of discounted or even free connection if you agreed to stay connected for a length of time.