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[NSW/ACT/QLD/SA/WA] Optus 5G Home Broadband $70/Month Unlimited [Selected Suburbs] with 50 Mbps Guaranteed

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[NSW/ACT/QLD/SA/WA] Optus 5G Home Broadband $70/Month Unlimited [Selected Suburbs] with 50 Mbps Guaranteed
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IMadeYouReadThis on 31/01/2019 - 11:53 optus.com.au (23049 clicks)
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As per the title, Optus is rolling out its 5G Home Broadband at 50Mbps guaranteed speed sometime in the middle of 2019 year. To begin with, it’s limited to few suburbs per state.

Good bye NBN.

PS. I am not in one of those listed suburbs!

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  • As of today, a lucky selection of Optus customers in Canberra (who live in Dickson or Manuka) will have the opportunity to sign up to get a 5G home Wi-Fi service.
  • Optus says it has launched an additional live site in Sydney and 47 more sites are planned to be online by March this year.
  • Optus has opened expressions of interest today allowing customers to register their interest for 5G home broadband in certain areas of selected suburbs including 23 in NSW, 13 in Queensland and nine in the ACT
  • Optus will confirm that we have received your submission and will keep you updated on the progress of your Expression of Interest.
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  • bargainfinder on 31/01/2019 - 12:21

    So, is 5GB faster than NBN?

    • battler on 31/01/2019 - 12:23

      so many factors. theory yes, but both NBN & (this) 5G are throttled.

    • klaw81 on 31/01/2019 - 12:32
      +13

      Sadly "NBN" means different things to different areas, thanks to Tony Abbot's moronic cluster-f@#% of the NBN.

      50Mbps is pretty fast, but latency and congestion are still major hurdles that Optus will have to sort out. And $70/month is definitely promotional pricing during the trial period.

      My guess is that the final consumer product will be something like:
      $80/month for 200Gb with 50Mbps speeds
      $100/month for 500Gb with 50Mbps speeds
      $180/month for unlimited and uncapped speed

      Note that 5G is very short range and only likely to be available in inner-city suburbs. Anyone out in the less dense suburbs is going to be out of luck, at least in the next 1-2 years.

      • muncan on 31/01/2019 - 14:15
        +1

        ❓ Fact check:
        Tony Abbott said Malcolm Turnbull virtually invented the Internet in this country

        • dellbon on 31/01/2019 - 18:28

          Al Gore says hi.

      • serpserpserp on 31/01/2019 - 15:53
        +1

        There is no way they will do an unlimited AND uncapped speed plan. It'll be uncapped for the GB limited plans, and throttled for the unlimited data plan.

        Optus and Telstra learnt their lessons on cable plans that were uncapped speed and data in the 2000s.

      • Thrawn on 31/01/2019 - 17:29

        The suburbs list in the initial Optus list are mostly outer suburban areas.

        My guess is that the price would go stay flat for a few years and then slowly go down over time. Initial 4G and 3G prices looked pretty cheap as well and it still went down gradually.

        The name of the game is that with this service at $70/month Optus keeps all of the money. Selling an NBN service, they keep only $20 from $70.

  • AFAR85 on 31/01/2019 - 12:22
    +1

    50Mbps is a good thing for fancy 5G?

    I'm getting 121Mbps on Optus 4G+ using the telstra speed test.
    https://imgur.com/a/2rls61Q

    This is in Richmond Victoria and I'm only paying $35/m.

    • IJustKnowStuff on 31/01/2019 - 12:25
      +4

      35\month for unlimited?

      • sicaboy on 31/01/2019 - 12:53

        Must be 10G data plan

        • Creamy on 31/01/2019 - 13:27

          I'm on a $45/m sim only plan with vodafone and I get 50GB of data and around 120Mbps inside my home in Caroline Springs

    • murkywater on 31/01/2019 - 18:35

      That's 50Mbps guaranteed at any time, even peak periods. I doubt you'll get over 20Mbps on peak periods with 4G.

    • yellowfever on 01/02/2019 - 14:03

      Is this phone plan or home 4G plan

  • IJustKnowStuff on 31/01/2019 - 12:24
    +1

    Oh holy hell my suburb is covered (excited squeal)

  • OoLLaWa on 31/01/2019 - 12:26
    +1

    Same issue will happen to a mobile broadband connection just like a fixed line technology, there will be congestion at peak time when an area reaches scale. There's a reason why launch sites are selectively picked.

    The ease of set up is super enticing though.

    • IJustKnowStuff on 31/01/2019 - 12:28
      +4

      Congestion wouldn't be an as much of an issue if there was a reliable National Broadband Network servicing everyone with fiber instead of this hotch potch roulette service. Now this wireless would be better than most of the possible connections, so more people will be on it. Sigh.

      • OoLLaWa on 31/01/2019 - 12:31
        +1

        It's not so much the reliability of nbn than the fact that some of its technology is already outdated.

      • Xizor on 31/01/2019 - 12:34
        +1

        Of course it would, congestion is most often the result of commercial decisions. NBN retailers buy bandwidth, or rather, lack thereof. Slow sync/connection speed is probably more what you meant.

      • Namesareapain on 31/01/2019 - 12:58
        +1

        A lot of the NBN's congestion problems is due to that idiot Conroy giving in to whining by Telstra and Optus, resulting in a stupid number (121!) of Points of Interconnect (POI) that each ISP has to buy bandwidth at individually (instead of a more reasonable number of approx 2 per a state).

        • Strong Salad on 31/01/2019 - 14:07

          Congestion issues are due to FTTN. FTTP connections suffer no such congestion. What makes you think POI caused the issue?

          • OoLLaWa on 31/01/2019 - 18:34

            @Strong Salad: He’s right, does not matter what tech you have. The amount of cvc an rsp purchase at a different POI dictates your peak hour bandwidth available. Having a 100mbps FTTP connection is of no use if your rsp purchases 100mbps of bandwidth for 100 users simultaneously using the network.

        • mathew42 on 31/01/2019 - 23:09

          NBN's congestion problems are due to RSPs offering unlimited data plans with insufficient CVC.

          If RSPs only offered plans with quotas then congestion would disappear.

    • triviums on 31/01/2019 - 12:31
      +1

      I don't think you can make that assumption until mmWave rollout starts and the performance is still the same. The population density that each mmWave tower will cover will be significantly smaller than current 4G towers.

      • OoLLaWa on 31/01/2019 - 12:34

        Isn't it more capex intensive to build those towers though, in that it requires more towers than a 4G spectrum?

        It will definitely be interesting to see but RSPs are all margin sensitive, so their business case will have to optimise the no. of towers and actual revenues per tower.

  • MikeKulls on 31/01/2019 - 12:28
    +1

    How can they guarantee 50Mbps?? Just a hunch, but I suspect this will come out not to be true.

    • Simoneister on 31/01/2019 - 12:31

      It's 50Mbps guaranteed, theoretical maximums are way higher.

      • Pacify on 31/01/2019 - 13:52
        +1

        They can't guarantee 50mbs down, they have no idea what congestion is going to be like. Optus couldn't even guarantee 50mbs down on FTTP nbn LOL. Optus is a complete joke

        • walaj on 31/01/2019 - 14:05

          they can if they limit the number of users.

    • OoLLaWa on 31/01/2019 - 12:32
      +1

      They can't, you will drop speeds at peak time and they just hope you don't go and cancel it after 30 days.

    • Strahany on 31/01/2019 - 14:00

      50Mbps is an easy guarantee for 5G, due to being approximately 1000 times faster, and able to connect to almost 1000 more devices, per metre from the tower. It would take a massively significant change in Internet usage habits to make 50mbps unachievable on 5G

  • Xizor on 31/01/2019 - 12:29
    +2

    At the end of the day 5G is still limited by the spectrum available and transmission allocated so by no means an NBN killer for a lot of ppl, but if your stuck in a dodgy/copper NBN area it may well be better. Competition is great for us all.

  • ThePriceMatchGuy on 31/01/2019 - 12:29

    Looks like Optus will continue the trend with rolling this out in the NT.. Not There lol

    • Mooncakes on 31/01/2019 - 13:26
      +1

      the big surprise is not launch in vic..

  • alexlybomb on 31/01/2019 - 12:29

    Wow all these new and amazing technologies rolling out, seems like almost all of Victoria has nbn ans I'm sitting here satisfied with my 330kb/s max download speed on adsl2+

    • serpserpserp on 31/01/2019 - 15:57

      I guess you don't mind your 360p netflix.

    • Xizor on 31/01/2019 - 12:37
      +10

      I don't think you comprehend how much wireless spectrum would be required for it to compete with the NBN on both a user & usage scale.

      • Namesareapain on 31/01/2019 - 13:09
        +1

        You also have to take into account the fact that mm wavelengths are going to require line of sight between the tower and antenna of the modem, making it a lot harder to get a connection.

    • mathew42 on 31/01/2019 - 23:14

      The danger to the NBN is that a significant percentage are not heavy users of the internet and can be serviced by wireless services. If you are downloading terabytes of data a month or need faster speeds than 100Mbps then you need FTTP. If you are one of the 90% on 50Mbps or slower and happy with a 200GB quota then wireless might well be a viable solution.

      The only differentiating factor for the NBN was 1Gbps speeds but Labor gave that up by introducing speed tiers.

  • chriise on 31/01/2019 - 12:34
    +3

    Isn't the wavelength needed for 5G supposedly really dangerous…?

    • Namesareapain on 31/01/2019 - 13:03
      -1

      Only if you are stupid and do not understand the simple Planck–Einstein relation (E = hv).

      • chriise on 31/01/2019 - 17:28
        +2

        Given 5g uses frequencies 5-50x higher than 4g, wouldn't that relation suggest the energy emitted is higher (and therefore possibly more dangerous?).

    • skysurfer on 31/01/2019 - 14:33
      +3

      Yes. But very few people care, and the down votes will come just for having an unpopular opinion.

      • chriise on 31/01/2019 - 17:35

        Didn't realise it was an unpopular standpoint. I also don't have an opinion on it, never looked too closely at it. I have seen some videos and articles discussing the possible health issues, and possible corruption of the corps pushing the tech. Could just be anti-huawei propaganda though.

    • abb on 04/02/2019 - 17:22

      "supposedly"

      Got any sources for that claim?

      Apparently it can modify some biological processes (probably due to heating?), but off-hand I can't recall the power density typically found from a mobile phone.
      See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremely_high_frequency

  • shortcircuit on 31/01/2019 - 12:36

    if NBN only use FTTH they may still compete with 5G

  • Xinjiang on 31/01/2019 - 12:37

    another fantasy we will be dreaming about.

  • ltwo on 31/01/2019 - 12:38
    +1

    $70 a month for unlimited data at 50m sounds great. Hopefully congestion is managed well

    • ozjacky on 31/01/2019 - 15:56
      +1

      depends on how many 5G users on the switch. You may get the 50Mbps speed, but with extremely large lag.

  • mikkim4eva on 31/01/2019 - 12:42
    +2

    They should really look at the NBN map and do their own rollouts base on that… My suburb kept getting delayed and is going to be HFC…

    GFG

    • serpserpserp on 31/01/2019 - 15:59

      100Mbps HFC is great with no congestion.

      • mikkim4eva on 31/01/2019 - 16:11
        +2

        Key word ^ no congestion

  • ChaLuo on 31/01/2019 - 12:44

    None in VIC, TAS and NT… these farming states

  • smpantsonfire on 31/01/2019 - 12:45
    +2

    I have Optus 200gb mobile data plan.

    In a phone hotspot at night I can get 120-200Mbps which is nice.

    This is a cat16 mobile device though.

    This is on 4G. Rarely ever do I drop below 50mbps

    • pw2002au on 31/01/2019 - 12:50

      Can I ask which device … as I just signed up for the mobile data plan and are interested in this?

      • smpantsonfire on 31/01/2019 - 14:01

        The sim is in an s8. If you can find an unlocked netgear nighthawk m1, you'll be laughing.

    • codinghelloworld on 31/01/2019 - 12:53

      Same here. I used Netgear 810s and got 110-130Mbps most of the time. Rarely it drops under 100.

  • tassieeagle on 31/01/2019 - 12:48

    Left off the map again

  • virtualds on 31/01/2019 - 12:48

    My suburb is listed!

  • tightasian on 31/01/2019 - 12:54
    -7

    Jesus, please ban Huawei forever. How NBN co can survive in 5G era.

  • Seraphin7 on 31/01/2019 - 13:02
    -3

    And the prophecy edges ever closer.

    5G was always going to be an NBN killer and here it is. The NBN will literally be obsolete before it is installed. With a touch of luck I'll never need to subscribe to the wretched thing and can jump straight to 5G.

    • krinkels on 31/01/2019 - 14:03
      +4

      5G is a FTTN killer sure. But it wouldn't at all compete with a proper FTTP (original NBN) network. Good thing the Liberals were the better managers and made sure to waste money on FTTN for nothing.

      • mathew42 on 31/01/2019 - 23:17
        -2

        Labor's speed tiers killed FTTP. You can build a 1Gbps network but when your expectation is that in 2026 50% will connect at 12Mbps and <1% at 1Gbps then something is wrong.

  • Skramit on 31/01/2019 - 13:06
    +4

    100 + votes for a deal thats 6 months away. haha

  • tryingtohelp on 31/01/2019 - 13:28
    -1

    In my opinion, it may not kill NBN, but will kill its monopoly and result in a competitive business environment across the country. I currently get Cable from Optus with 100mbps and heaps of stuff for $90 a month, this deal is miles away from what NBN plans have to offer. When talking to the providers, there's no way the can offer lucrative deals on NBN as the underlying bulk purchase prices are already on a higher end not leaving enough room for margins.
    In addition to that, their flawed rollout plan. Newly subdivided properties like mine are unable to get NBN whilst the whole street is ready to go for NBN. Multiple calls only result in a by a book response "unfortunately there's more work required in your property and will likely be in July 2020".
    I'm so with Optus on this and will wait for their roll out in my area.
    This is right in NBN's face :-)

  • acersaurus on 31/01/2019 - 13:30

    Wow, shows what value the country got for it's $48 billion NBN investment only to be superseded a several years later by superior tech.

    I'm sure the government had nothing better to spend the money on/wasn't a waste at all.. as it provided a marginal improvement over ADSL2 in the pre 5G days.

    • Pacify on 31/01/2019 - 13:55
      +1

      This is going to be a complete disaster if many people take it up. Speeds will crawl to below adsl speeds. Optus is one of the worst ISPs around

    • krinkels on 31/01/2019 - 14:04
      +2

      If only we'd stayed with the FTTP model. Would be far superior to anything wireless.

  • branners on 31/01/2019 - 13:35

    We Victorians cannot get a break. First Glenn Maxwell and now this…
    My Optus 4G home internet runs at 48-50mbps, and does not drop out for anything much. The big advantage was, no NBN installation loony hacking into a wall (that happened elsewhere in my street) and I can take the modem wherever I want, within reason.
    But it will be worth looking at 5G once it settles in and as others have pointed out, it provides competition for the NBN.

    • Marty131 on 31/01/2019 - 13:54
      +2

      48-50mbps is impressive. Do you get slow downs during the evening, or are able to sustain those speeds?

      • branners on 31/01/2019 - 15:22

        Nope, goes like a blur. My old ADSL2+ was 1-1.5mbps, which was pathetic.
        I have monitored the speed of the 4G carefully and it stays in the 40s in the evening, and does not buffer. And this is with a modem I bought off Gumtree (ex-Vividwireless) and an internal antenna.
        I just tested it now, 47.9. Good enough.
        With the deal that Optus put on, it's pretty good value.

      • Umcookies on 31/01/2019 - 20:17

        Not to take away from Branners but 40-50 is pretty easily achievable on the Optus 4G network if your local tower isn't getting hammered. Personally I'm getting this right now https://www.speedtest.net/result/a/4646982553.

  • JTTheMan on 31/01/2019 - 13:37

    Just when I thought internet infrastructure couldn't get any more complicated in Australia!?

    It's as if the technology is simply outpacing the incredibly slow government/s. While they have meeting after meeting after election after election, the world keeps moving on.

    It's like they're a group of cavemen deciding on what colour should the fire be? and who's going to pay for the wood? Where we will get the wood from? How will we transport the wood? Where will we burn the fire? and so on and so on and so on…..

  • aladdin on 31/01/2019 - 13:38

    Currently with vividwireless due to no nbn and adsl in my area. And my suburb is listed!!!! Cant wait to jump on..

  • Bargainated on 31/01/2019 - 13:51
    -1

    Interesting a large number of the suburbs in NSW contain housing commission homes eg. Bonnyrigg, Dharruk, Tregear, Bidwell and Warwick Farm.

    1. Is this were our Social Money is going to pay their internet?
    2. Recent scientific findings have outlined multiple risks associated with 5G bandwidth. Are these areas test subjects?
  • Pacify on 31/01/2019 - 13:51

    Unlimited and guaranteed 50mbs? Thats a good joke

  • C0mbat on 31/01/2019 - 13:54

    I already use a 4G hotspot with an Optus sim for my home internet with a WiFi mesh across the house and get a solid 70 Mbps. Not sure why I would ever need more but this is a good deal.

  • yellowfever on 31/01/2019 - 13:58

    I have Optus 4G 200GB plan but can only get max 30mbps down. Most times its around 15-20mbps. I have tried different router positions in the house and no improvement.
    The router is capable 4G.

    Compared to my phone on Telstra I get consistent 80-110mbps

    I searched for nearest tower and Optus is only 300m away although I cannot see the tower from my house.

    I read members here get 100mbps from Optus 4G not sure what is wrong with my area

    • smpantsonfire on 31/01/2019 - 14:05

      Honestly, get a Better router. Try the sim in your phone and see what you get.

      • Jikx on 31/01/2019 - 14:17

        Yeah.. most bog standard 4G modems are Cat 4 (connects to less towers/frequencies at the same time, theoretical max 150mbps), whereas some phones are Cat 16 (theorectical 1gbps)!

    • customundo on 31/01/2019 - 14:56

      Invest in a better router eg Asus RT-88U. I'm getting 60-110 Mbps on 4G consistently depending on the time of day

      • yellowfever on 31/01/2019 - 15:07

        I have this router is it OK? Anything not good about it? Only just bought it
        https://www.tp-link.com/dk/products/details/cat-4691_Archer-…

        • smpantsonfire on 31/01/2019 - 15:10

          That would be max 150, most likely 50-120

          • yellowfever on 31/01/2019 - 18:47

            @smpantsonfire: I'm trying to understand what are the limitations of my router, could you tell me which part of the spec it is lacking?

            • smpantsonfire on 31/01/2019 - 19:23

              @yellowfever: I'm not that clued up on it, but yours is cat 4 device.

              The way I explain it, is that imagine hoses coming out of a water tank.

              That router can connect to 1 or maybe 2 hoses to get water

              The latest phones can connect to up to 4-8 hoses at once.

              More hoses more water.

              That's about the extent that I understand it

    • Austere on 31/01/2019 - 16:27

      What do you get directly under the tower?

      I get >120mbps on Optus compared to <100mbps on Telstra from a good location 800m from the tower.

    • Shanp on 01/02/2019 - 17:30

      Try a netgear nighthawk m1

  • gstfree on 31/01/2019 - 14:28

    As Huawei is out, do we know who supplies Optus 5G base stations, antennas and mini cells?

    • serpserpserp on 31/01/2019 - 16:03
      +1

      Kogan

    • Costanza on 31/01/2019 - 16:34
      +1

      Nokia

    • sfac on 31/01/2019 - 17:43
      +1

      Trump

    • customundo on 31/01/2019 - 21:11

      Aquaman

    • ozjacky on 01/02/2019 - 14:59

      Non-Huawei brands

    • dellbon on 01/02/2019 - 20:35
      +1

      Rocketman

  • ob123 on 31/01/2019 - 14:36

    How does this work- like a Pocket Wifi?
    Can you take it with you when you travel interstate? or is it completely fixed to your address only?

    • Costanza on 31/01/2019 - 16:37

      No, a plug in router. Should be able to take it with you to other 5g areas.

  • deejaygrub on 31/01/2019 - 14:45
    +1

    Aren't there still a lot of health concerns over the higher amount of radiation from 5g? https://youtu.be/1Qt5B39LB7c

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