The National broadband Network (NBN) Co has announced it intends to offer telcos and other service providers new high speed wholesale broadband services which can be tailored to meet demands of small office/home office (SOHO) consumers.

 

The NBN Co outlined the plans that will be designed to allow ISPs offer packages for small business to enable them to use broadband for quality voice services, and to offer enhanced service levels to support longer hours of business operation.

 

"Using NBN Co's new services, telcos and ISPs have potentially more flexibility in putting together packages that give small businesses access to big business functionality at affordable prices," said NBN Co Head of Product Development and Industry Relations, Jim Hassell.

 

"Our research indicates that many home office/small office operators and small businesses are currently using standard residential services for their telephone or broadband, or opting for business-grade offerings over copper-based ADSL2+ services. Beyond this, for larger small businesses, there is a quite a big jump to business-grade fibre-based services.

 

The NBN product suite proposes to offer more incremental pricing tiers to enable a telecommunications or internet service provider to offer a wider range of plans at different price points to suit the individual needs of businesses of varying sizes.

 

"In addition to high download speeds, one of the big advantages of the wholesale business grade NBN products for small business, when compared with an ADSL service, is the availability of much higher upload speeds," Jim Hassell said.

 

NBN Co will provide wholesale level speeds of up to 40 Mbps* at the layer 2 level in its small business offering.