This is cheaper than traditional broadband over your phone wires.  You can use it in the house, the park or at a café. It is dependant on signal strength etc.  Probably the best way for people currently on dial up with low to average usage to get to broadband speeds.  Great if you are moving house a lot.  Not really suitable for big downloaders (say over 6GB). 

BUY BY "USAGE" PER MONTH

No Contract but pay for equipment $179 (once off cost at the beginning, plus delivery).
1GB/mth  $18.48
2GB/mth  $24.09
3GB/mth $29.04
6GB/mth $48.18

Setup: seems to be a lot more simple than I thought. It looks like you just plug the USB stick into your computer and it sets itself up. Nice! You just need to call us when you get your USB stick (it comes via registered post) so we can activate the wireless part from here for it.

Coverage: Our Wireless Broadband uses the Optus HSDPA network. So most population areas in Australia are covered. To get an idea (but not a guarantee!) of your coverage, goto: http://www.optus.net.au/coverage You need to select the 3G Coverage option and put in your location details.

System Requirements:

  • Standard USB interface
  • Microsoft Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista or Mac OS X10.3.7 or above
  • 100MB free hard disk space or above
  • 128MB RAM or above

Excess "Usage" is 14c/mb.  Excess hours $6.60/hr. Delivery fee of $12.50 applies on free and purchased equipment. There can be a wait time of 2 to 3 weeks for equipment delivery. You have14 days trial period  from activation date to assess if signal strength and performance are good enough in your area.  You may return all the equipment and packaging, in good order, for full equipment refund in that trial period.  You must pay for the postage back to us.  Subscription charges still apply for the period you have the equipment up to the date we receive it back. This is an "opt out if not satisfied".  It is not a "freebie"!  Once your 14 day trial period is over then you are locked in if you are on a contract and only "warranty" returns of equipment applies.  Other terms and conditions apply and will be posted on our web page later.  Feel free to discuss it with us at the office.

On joining;
Pro-rata Usage and Time in the first calendar month: New plan’s Usage allowance will be prorated up until the 1st of the following month. For example if a customer joins on the 16th of a 30 day month (16th would be counted as day 1) on the 3GB/mth plan. The GB remaining for the month would be 1.5GB.

Plan upgrades and downgrades
a) The amount of GB used is not reset (GB is not reset until the 1st of the month)
b) Pro rata refunds are given for the leaving plan.
c) When the End Customer has exceeded their usage allowance defined by their Plan a
charge per MB will be applied.
d) Maximum usage allowance will be limited to 6GB except for the 6GB plan which will
be able to go to 7GB.

e) Remainders of contract periods will be added to the new plans contract period.

Daily hang-up for refresh
Note: Customers will be ‘hanged up’ for several seconds between 11:30pm- Midnight each day. This is
required to update our daily usage records.

Early Termination Fees apply;
If you are on a 24mth contract then an early termination fee of $179 applies should you terminate (or be terminated for non-payment etc) before the full 24mths has passed.

Usage Meters ;
The software that comes with the USB stick tracks usage but does not reset at the begining of the month. The usage meter on the main Rabbit web page doesn't handle wireless accounts yet. We will try and add that later if possible but for now use the meter that comes with the equipment. Keep in mind you need to note your figures at the begining of each month and any manual resets of your software will reset your figures.