Rural and regional Australians on NBN Co’s Sky Muster satellite service are set for a broadband data boost after NBN Co today announced new plans that will no longer count the use of essential internet services – including email, general web browsing and critical software updates – towards monthly data allowances.
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The new Sky Muster Plus product is scheduled to be available next year for eligible users in NBN Co’s satellite network footprint.
This new product will help deliver fast download speeds by providing access to a wholesale 25Mbps product that can now burst above 25Mbps wholesale speed when applications and network support allows.
The new wholesale plans will no longer count the use of monthly data allowance towards essential internet services – like internet banking and email.
This means when a user exhausts their monthly data allowance, wholesale download speeds will not be slowed down for regular web activities like accessing emails or internet banking.
Use of other web traffic, however, including streaming video and online gaming, will continue to be subject to monthly data allowances, with speeds being shaped if data limits are exceeded.
Sky Muster Plus is NBN Co’s latest initiative to improve customer experience for regional and rural Australians who are connected to services over the nbn access network.
Last year, the company doubled the maximum monthly wholesale data limits on Sky Muster satellite services (from 150GB to 300GB per month) and also increased the average peak data allowance that phone and internet providers can offer to users by 50 per cent (from 30GB to 45GB).
NBN Co announced in its recent Corporate Plan an additional $800m to boost capacity on its nbn Fixed Wireless network, as well as a new wholesale product to better manage network capacity for users who connect.
Visit nbn.com.au/regional for more information.
