I would be very interested to know why telecom did 2 month unlimited. i kind
of thought it was a test of what was to come.
i loved the days of just be managing 10Gb in 10Hrs on ful speed ADSL, and it
has so mcuh speed execpt it is so ecpensive for us poor students
Sam
----- Original Message -----
From: "Iain" <tripz@xtra.co.nz>
To: <adsl@unixathome.org>; "Kendall Julian" <kendallj@clear.net.nz>
Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2001 8:28 PM
Subject: Re: ClearNet ADSL ?
> > Interesting you should say that - Clear's tempest pricing seems
uncannily
> > similar to British Telecom's in the UK. I wonder if Clear will pursue
the
> > same draconian scheme whereby customers are forced to rent their
> > modem/routers with threats of legal action and disconnection if the
> customer
> > should so much as lay a finger on it... A UK newsgroup I subscribe to
> seems
> > to have users quaking in their boots over disconnecting their rented USB
> > modem and substituting one with a router... Sounds almost like the old
> Post
> > Office days when you could be publically flogged for using a phone other
> than
> > the standard supplied one... BT is watching you...
>
> Yeah, but we do well considering where we are. Broadband is great for
those
> that really need it. But most people don't know what the difference
between
> 56k and 128k is.
>
> It would be nice to watch streaming stuff, and video conference and
stuff..
> very cool. But I don't think I'd get into that too much, and so for me,
like
> alot of others, we want broadband for downloading really fast.
>
> But 128k is all good, it's a matter of time for downloads to finish.
> Paitience is a virtue.. :0)
>
> > Clear are going to need to pull their socks up a bit in the customer
> service
> > dept first... exert from another mail-list I posted to...
> >
>
> Yeah, in my case... xtra and telecom don't know their left from their
> right.. you go back and forth if your not too sure which company to call..
> Symptom of how their setup.. but I work in customer service and do the
> phones... and...
>
> It's amazing the amount of abuse you get over the phone.. and some rep's
are
> better than others.. know what is going on etc... I know they should be up
> to date, but sometimes they aren't.
>
> NZ's pricing is similar to overseas.. which shows how good we are at
making
> the best out of our situation. The only thing I think that would be
> different if we didn't have a monopoly is that we might have 256k and 512k
> accounts already... but flatrate.. not too sure on that.
>
> The southern cross cables got to pay for itself, and articles I've read
show
> that by the time you've put the cable in, if you did it now you'd get 10
> times the bandwidth for the same cost.. Give it a couple of years and
you'll
> have what you want now..
>
> I'm just sitting back with 128k.. remembering the 1200 baud days.. It
still
> takes as long as it did to get what you want, because the size of our
> transfers have grown.. ie.. a game back then may have taken all day...
same
> thing with an ISO / DivX... (whoops.. I didn't say that..)..
>
> but you know what I mean..
>
> That 8mbit unrestricted gift from telecom to DSL was an awesome taste of
> broadband.. anyone ever figure out why they did that? (a test?)
>
> anyhow.. starting to ramble..
>
> good luck in getting what you want :0)
>
> cya
> Iain
>
>
>
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