We received an inquiry today from someone who just got a bill from his phone company iPrimus for $102. Most of the calls were local calls, with a few to interstate landlines. There were virtually no mobile calls as he has a good capped mobile plan to make calls to other mobile phones. He also pays $49 for an internet connection with AAPT.
So what could Naked DSL do for him? I checked his phone number and he is connected to the Epping exchange in the suburbs of Sydney. Among the providers available in the Epping exchange are TPG, iinet, Netspace, Exetel, Optus and Dodo.
This customer was not too familiar with Naked DSL, so I explained a few things….
The Naked DSL Solution
1. You no longer pay line rental. The particular plan he was on with Primus was $36 line rental per month. Say adios to having to pay that with Naked DSL.
2. Because he was mainly making local calls, I instantly thought that iinet Naked DSL would be a great option. You get a free VoIP service with unlimited local and national calls to landlines within Australia. With the line rental gone, there goes most of that $102 phone bill each month.
3. iinet would also be a really good option because they allow you keep your existing home phone number with your iiTalk VoIP service.
4. Naked DSL is an ADSL2+ broadband connection. So it’s as fast as you can get with an ADSL service. So this customer was happy to know that he would get faster internet than what he had with his current AAPT ADSL1 plan.
5. This customer was not a big user of data. So he was looking at the $49.95 plan for 2GB peak data + 2GB off peak data or the $59.95 plan with 8GB + 8GB.
The $49.95 plan only has the option for no contract with a $195 set up fee, whereas the $59.95 plan has the option for a 24 month contract with a $79 set up fee. The customer liked the idea of a lower set up fee on a 24 month plan. So he chose the $59.95 plan with 8GB peak data + 8GB off peak data. He only has he and his wife and small children at home and they don’t download much, so this plan will provider ample data for him.
6. He was also very happy to know that there are no excess fees if he goes over the data limit. We were also looking at Optus plans and were concerned that if for some reason he exceeded his data allowance with Optus he would have to pay 15 cents per MB in excess fees for up to 2GB extra. That is a total of $300 in excess fees -what a rip off!
7. He had an old modem from AAPT which needed upgraded, so I recommended he get the iinet BoB modem which comes pre-configured or the Open Networks modem if he is able to set it up himself.
8. Lastly I mentioned that there is an internet outage period of 1 to 2 weeks with many Naked DSL connections while they are being set up. He was fine with that and decided to proceed with the application.
Total Saving: $90 per month or $1,080 per year!
Last Month:
$150 for phone rental, phone calls and broadband internet
Next Month:
$59.95 for iinet Naked DSL + unlimited calls to landlines in Australia
Investment:
This customer chose to go for a 24 month plan and so his set up fee was reduced to $79. He also needed to invest in a new ADSL2+, VoIP modem. I recommended modems that were going to cost between $130 and $209. So the total investment for getting Naked DSL was going to be about $200 to $300. This investment will be paid off within 2 to 3 months of switching to Naked DSL. From there our case study will be saving $90 every single month!
