NBN Corp has announced wholesale price changes for 2026, and as we saw last year, the prices will go up rather than down. According to NBN “the wholesale price change is between $0 and $2.34 per month” depending on a connection’s speed tier, but that doesn’t necessarily mean your NBN provider will increase or decrease their monthly fees: it just means your provider will be paying NBN more.
Are NBN providers likely to absorb that cost, though? Probably not.
The increases are, depending on how you look at it, pretty miniscule. If you’re on an NBN 500 plan—which most people in metropolitan centres probably are, nowadays—the wholesale price of those is increasing by an average of AU$2.32 a month. For NBN 1000 it’s less at AU$1.95 a month.
“NBN’s wholesale prices will be adjusted, on average, by just under the annual percentage change in the Consumer Price Index (CPI), measured over the 12 months to 31 December 2025, which was 3.63 per cent,” the NBN helpfully elaborates. The main take away is that, with the new financial year looming, NBN prices are likely to increase on a provider-by-provider basis.
|
Provider |
Current intro price (12 months) |
Current intro price (6 months) |
Regular price |
Total first year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Dodo |
n/a |
AU$61 |
AU$92.99 |
AU$923.94 |
|
Kogan |
AU$71.90 |
n/a |
AU$85.90 |
AU$862.80 |
|
Origin |
n/a |
AU$56 |
AU$112 |
AU$1,008 |
|
Spintel |
n/a |
AU$76 |
AU$86.95 |
AU$977.70 |
|
Tangerine |
n/a |
AU$63.90 |
AU$88.90 |
AU$916.80 |
|
Superloop |
n/a |
AU$69 |
AU$95 |
AU$984 |
That Kogan price is the best at the moment if you look at the whole year, and it’s the connection I’ve been meaning to jump to since my previous Spintel introductory offer elapsed.
There are also some very decent introductory prices on NBN 1000 going around (though no where near as many):
|
Provider |
Current intro price (12 months) |
Current intro price (6 months) |
Regular price |
Total per year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Dodo |
n/a |
AU$78 |
AU$109.99 |
AU$1,127.94 |
|
TPG |
n/a |
AU$79.99 |
AU$109.99 |
AU$1,139.88 |
In other words, there are plenty of good reasons not to spend a great deal on the internet, especially in light of a looming (though still vague) price hike.
NBN 500 and NBN 1000 connections are only available on FTTP and HTC connections. If you’re not on either of those, you should check on the NBN website to see if you’re eligible for an upgrade.
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