Telstra ADSL vs TransACT (was Re: TransACT@CLUG this month)
jeremy at itassist.net.au
jeremy at itassist.net.au
Sat Nov 17 22:35:21 EST 2001
On 17 Nov, Rasjid Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Nov 2001 21:45, jeremy at itassist.net.au wrote:
>> You're probably all going to have to sit down for this one - I'm
>> about to defend Telstra! Maybe.
>>
>> Has anyone actually run into this mysterious 3Gb download cap? I
>> keep blowing 3Gb and haven't been hassled yet. Even my frinds who
>> are topping 40Gb a month aren't being penalised.
>>
>> Having said that I'll probably receive a bill tomorrow that bankrupts
>> me or something.
>>
>> So while that spreadsheet is an accurate summary of the advertised
>> prices, Telstra seems to be doing something different in practise.
>
> Just for the record, I'm not particulary anti-Telstra. In fact, my
> current ISP is BigPond (dialup). If the idea of being able to get a
> fixed IP address didn't appeal to me I would probably have been using
> Telstra ADSL for the last 6 months or more.
>
> But I can understand why other ISP's are not happy about Telstra's
> pricing policys.
I would have thought most ISPs would have been delighted with Telstra's
pricing policies. At the moment TransACTs marketeers could rightfully
say that they go faster for less.
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