Tuesday, April 17, 2012
TELAUSTRALIA ANNOUNCES UNLIMITED ADSL INTERNET PLANS
We are pleased to offer our NEW Unlimited Business Internet ADSL 2 plan. Unlimited downloads for $140 per month stand alone or $150 a month including line rental.
Our new plans reflect the dramatic increase in ADSL data usage over recent years and reflect Telaustralia's ability to adapt to our customers requirements.
The services are available at any exchange serviced by Telstra network.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
NEW HEAVY USE ADSL 2+PLANS
We are pleased have just launched our new set of ADSL plans including bundled services starting at $90 a month for 50Gb of data and line rental. Click through the links to our Standard Internet Bundles and our Business Internet Bundles.
Our new plans reflect the dramatic increase in ADSL data usage over recent years and reflect Telaustralia's ability to adapt to our customers requirements.
The services are available at any exchange serviced by Telstra network.
Friday, January 06, 2012
The amount of data used with a Hosted Voice PBX System will vary depending on the quality settings used. On most hosted PBX system you adjust the amount of data used for voice calls by varying the codec used to carry your calls.
If you use G729 then expect to use around 13mb/hour of talk time, for G711a allow 30-40mb/hour. Our statistics show that the average talk time per line per day is between 30 min to 1 hour so if you have 5 lines, allow between 650mb and 1.3gb per month using G729 and between 1.8gb to 3.5gb per month if using G711. Note we assume a 20 day working month and usage is based upon general office conditions.
If your operating hours or days of operation vary from the example provided just modify talk time on a pro rata basis to suit your business and recalculate.
Monday, August 30, 2010
My Internets running slow! Yes? No ...well its not a common complaint that we get but we hear and read plenty about it. What cause's Broadband Internet to run slowly? While there are many many factors that can effect internet speed, there are a couple of main reasons that are most commonly to blame. Essentially with an ADSL Internet service you get what you pay for.
1. Contention ratio is the the number of users that are on the service at the exchange and sharing the back haul capacity of the network. If you equate an ADSL Internet services with a Water Pipe ..... ADSL is no different to a water pipe in that the greater number of taps on a pipe that are open, will mean lower water pressure. In this analogy, equate water pressure with Internet speed ...so the more users sharing the service the lower the speed. In Australia high quality and higher cost services using Telstra backbone (which has the most Back Haul Capacity) will have far lower Contention ratios than service's that are offering massive download allowances at relatively low cost, such as Dodo or TPG. The Contention Ratio is typically what causes the 4pm slow down when the kids get home from school and start hitting You Tube, Face Book and MSN and the number of users on the service increases
2. Transmission loss is essentially loss of electrical current the further it is transmitted from the source. The electrical current carries your data and this is effected by how far you are from the exchange. The further you are from the exchange the slower your Internet connection is likely to be. It is very unlikely anyone gets the full advertised speeds of their service unless the are effectively next door to the exchange.
3. International Back Bone is the networks ability to carry Internet Traffic primarily to the USA. Around 90% of all Internet traffic (including local emails) is routed via The USA and the networks capacity to carry this traffic has a big impact on Internet Speed. Telstra network currently has 7 dedicated cables/pipes carrying its traffic while the balance of Australia ISPs share 5 pipes so any provider using Telstra network will tend to have less slow downs.
This is not to mean that these are the only reasons Internet speeds are effected. To this list you can add in copper quality, condition of equipment at the exchange, condition and age of your modem, and of course environmental issues effecting the network such as excessive rain.
Friday, August 27, 2010
We regularly get asked about what the NBN will mean for our customers. While the full details are not clear there are some aspects of the NBN, that if delivered as proposed by Fibre to the Door, will deliver capabilities not currently seen in this country.
While the NBN will mean enhanced learning and entertainment prospects for most residential customers, a much greater impact could be seen in the business community by lowered telecommunications costs and significantly enhanced functionality.
For example a current business with 15 staff and 10 phone lines. They are likely to have either an ISDN 10 service or possibly have opted for a IP Phone System. Currently due to the costs of Business Grade SHDSL in Australia using a IP system can in many cases be a situation of robbing Peter to pay Paul. That is ..... what the Business customer saves on call costs, they pay in added Business Grade SHDSL costs.
For example. the same customer above has a standard ISDN 10 service and would have a monthly bill of around $300 for their line rental and in addition would be paying $50-$100 per month for their Business ADSL Internet. Calls costs are flat rate for Local Calls and Timed for National, International and calls to Mobiles. With 15 staff it would not be unusual for the monthly call charges to be around $1000 meaning a monthly bill of approx $1400.
The same customer elected to go with an IP System which are currently available. So they pay around $10 per channel for Voice and have a 4Mb/4Mb SHDSL Business Grade Internet service with 50Gb of data a month to support their IP (Essentially VoIP calls and these need equal bandwidth upstream and downstream). The cost of this Business Grade SHDSL service would be typically $900-$1100 per month plus they still need to pay for calls however these would be at a much lower rate. Lets say call costs are 30% of the cost of the ISDN 10/20/30 calls. This means the customers monthly bill is still in the range of $1300 per month.
The same customer gets a NBN connection with fibre to the door with 50Gb per month of data allowance. This is mooted to be around $100 per month and this will deliver potentially 100Mb/100Mb Business Grade SHDSL which can support their calls and data requirements. The customer arranges 10 SIP/IP channels through a Hosted Voice
(a Virtual PABX system that runs over the internet) provider and these would typically be around or under $10 per channel per month.
Assuming there is no change to call costs (but we expect they will come down significantly) .... the customers phone bill is $100 for access/line rental/internet, plus $100 for the Voice Channels and $300 for the calls...well below half of the current options.
In addition if the customer needs hardware there could be significant savings for them there also. A current PABX system configured for Primary ISDN 10 with 15 handsets would be approximately $10k. Pre configured SIP phones from a Hosted Voice provider are currently available for between $80 & $350. Assuming mid range handsets all round this Phone System would cost the customer in the order of $3-$4k.
Some very good reasons for Business to back the NBN ... Fibre ....if not to the door of all Australian Households ...at least to the door of all Business Centres in every town....how much chaeper would that option be?
The down side of the NBN (aside from the $43 Billion it is forecast to cost) is that some estimates indicate that up to 70% of PABX Phone systems in Australia are not IP compatible and therefore may not work on a fibre network, without significant upgrade or replacement.
Could be a good time to be in the Phone Hardware business!
Thursday, August 26, 2010
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