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Likely all of it as it is a no-cost change at the wholesale end, but of course it's an excuse to reshuffle the pricing brackets and adjust CVC to cut costs and increase profits.
It looks like the current top 1000/50 tier might get a bump up to 1000/100 though.
My understanding is that the gigabit tier is only available over FTTP... So why aren't the speeds symmetric? Practically every other country that has gigabit fibre has symmetric speeds. With more and more people storing data "in the cloud", upload speeds are more important than ever.
I live in the USA now and even the lowest speed tiers with ISPs offering fibre (300Mbps in my area) are symmetric.
Artificial limitations to separate residential connections from business connections.
Also, the CVC system is partly to blame.
1000/50 is available on HFC. I know because I have it.
Interesting... My mum couldn't get it at her place for some reason. She's with Optus and they said she'd have to wait for fiber to be installed to get the faster plans.
It’s not in all HFC areas unfortunately.
I'm on 1000/50 and while a bump to 100 upload would be nice, they really need to bump it up more. 250 minimum. Or something like 500/500 would be nice.
Agreed but unlikely for at least a few more years. 500/200 is where I'd be happy but that's $250 ish at the moment.