The kicker? Among the proposed plans is a regular telephone service without line rental.
Internode will launch their naked DSL service this week, and has revealed plans for a broadband package that lets you continue using a regular telephone service without a separate line rental fee.
The new rental-free service will be called Internode Ultra and will appear later this year. While users will get a dial-tone and the ability to make regular telephone calls, there will be no separate line rental charge. That equates to a "$20 or $30 saving that you would normally pay against the cost of line rental", said managing director Simon Hackett.
Hackett compared the offering in structural terms to the Optus 'Fusion' package currently on the market. However Hackett said Internode Ultra will be "without the punitive upload and download charging of the Fusion package". Users will get a single bill from Internode.
Best of all, the Ultra service includes a full analogue dial-tone 'conventional' offering of voice services, Hackett said.
Internode Ultra will not appear till later this year, but in the meantime Internode plans to launch its initial Naked ADSL2+ offering (using Optus ports) tomorrow. A 'Naked Extreme' product will also launch later this year using Internode 'Annex M' capable ports. The Internode Ultra service will go live sometime around the same period.
All the new plans will be compatible with the Internode 'NodePhone' broadband voice service, but Mr Hackett adds that, "it is not mandated with any of them".