How to Evaluate NBN Providers

The National Broadband Network is constantly increasing its coverage and the number of premises it is able to serve. At the end of 2012, the NBN was able to serve 758,000 premises. Now four years later, the NBN is able to provide coverage to over two and a half million premises all over Australia. With so many NBN providers and plans to choose from, picking the one that is best for you can be difficult. Everyone has a different idea about what constitutes a “good” telecom plan, but generally everyone wants the best quality for the cheapest price. With that in mind, here are some tips that will help you evaluate all the different NBN plans, and pick the one that best suits your needs.

Check the list of NBN providers who service your area

The main NBN website offers a very helpful tool where you can enter your address and see if the NBN rollout has begun in your area of residence. The tool will then give you a list of NBN providers who service your area; as well as giving a helpful phone number and website link to each provider. This tool makes it easy for you to see what providers offer the NBN in Adelaide, or Sydney, or wherever you happen to live.

Evaluate the quality of the Internet Service Provider

This tip will not be that helpful to people who only use their internet services to check their emails every couple of days, or google stock prices. But many people today use their internet to download very large files, stream videos, and many other internet intensive tasks. Thankfully there are helpful tools provided by both Google and Netflix that can help you evaluate the speed of NBN providers. You should also be aware of the other factors that can influence internet speed; things like quality of the wiring, quality of your modem, the quality of your computer, etc.,

Dealing with contracts

Contracts dealing with internet service can be confusing (much like contracts dealing with mobile phones) and are usually filled with technical terms like peak and off-peak, speed tiers, etc. Some general tips are to avoid NBN plans that try to charge you differently for internet use during peak and off-peak hours. Try to find NBN providers that offer data heavy plans (the average NBN household uses over a 100GBs of data a month). Finally, do not settle, if you are unhappy with the prices you are seeing from your NBN providers, keep shopping around, you can usually find a better price if you search.

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This article is written by Barry Kinson. He has got into writing professionally and uploads regular informative articles. You can refer to the articles and the information put down by him and clears your doubts on Wireless Broadband.