[plug] honeymoon is over - Telstra introduces traffic cap on freedom ADSL

[Mike Holland]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Jason wrote:

> > Feel free to flam^H^H^H^Hcorrect me if you want to, but I really
> > can't understand why people get upset when they're limited to
> > *only* 3GB.
> 
> Because when they signed up, they signed up for an *unlimited* use plan?
> A 3GB limit, although it's high, is still a limit.

High? Thats only 2% (two percent!) saturation on a 512kbit link.
But why do they bother with bandwidth limits at all when the volume
charges are so high? I cant see how they make sense, except to limit
otherwise "unlimited" accounts.
   How can Telstra possible justify charging 35c/MB ? Its disgusting.

Thats $78 for the first 3GB, and $1050 for the next 3GB. 

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Mike Holland  <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>
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