Optus has introduced a push of new broadband plans aimed at heavy data usage customers. It has refreshed its range of Fusion bundled broadband plans and Naked DSL plans.

The entry level Naked DSL plans of Optus have been affected by the price cuts while excess data charges have been moved to shape speeds once a particular user exceeds their monthly data subscription. Optus now offers customers sign up plans of 120GB, 150GB, and 170GB of data downloads per month for prices of $59.99, $69.99, and $79.99 per month. Download speeds are wrought to 64Kbps once the download data limit exceeds.

It is claimed by Optus that their new range of Fusion plans feature an 'unlimited' access of broadband. In spite of this, users are referred to the 'unlimited' access in the sense that users will be wrought to download speeds at 256Kbps once the download data exceeds the limit. The 'unlimited' plan starts at $99.99 monthly for data of 15GB.

The lower-end of Fusion plans starts at $79 monthly for data of 7GB and charges 15 cents per megabyte of data after the data download limit exceeds.

Opptus marketing director Austin R. Ryan said the revamped plans follow a broad-ranging process of consultation with its customers.

According to Australian IT, the consultation process results showed that the customers of Optus were after two main features in broadband plans: more data and more transparency around the stakes associated with excess data charges.