I agree, if it were a "Tolls" situation where it was $1.00 for national
calls/min and $10.00 for international, yet the system cant tell the
difference then all hell would break loose.
Surly if you are being billed for something then you have a right as a
consumer to a detailed account surly?
B

Biff Urquhart
+64 3 383 3494
They said "Smile, it could be worse", so I did, and it was!

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I have an issue with this as well.
I have been lax at tracking the bills but recieved summary today.
Since April the smallest monthly charge is 150 dollars and the
largest 220. It is supposed to be 65 + line rental (90 ish).

Now I am fair pissed - this is a rip off on a grand scale.

Telecom billing national traffic as international is a neat
explanation - fits the circumstances perfectly.

TAking my case as example, how much profit do you imagine the new
bandwidth rules generated ? Effectively the price of jetstream is
tripled.

I sometimes wonder if the generation above us who actually paid for
and installed the copper loops had any idea that it would be sold and
then rented back to the population at such extortionate prices.

And of course after raising this huge rental profit now Telecom
intend to renege on the Kiwi Share.

Sorry for the rant

Mad today
Warwick

On 9 Aug 2002 at 14:15, Simon Cobb wrote:

> I've asked this question before, but perhaps (at the risk of being
> flamed) it's time to revisit the issue again...
>
> I'm a full rate JetStream 1000 user, having switched about a month ago

> from 128K JetStream Starter. I connect from home via VPN into my
> office about 2KMs away. The connection process works perfectly and I
> get excellent performance. However, what really bugs me is that I'm
> being charged for all traffic, both upstream and downstream, at the
> same rate as if I was leeching gigabytes of data from the West Coast
> of the USA. Many ISPs (including
> Xtra) are allowing unlimited national traffic and capping
international
> traffic for their 128K JetStart customers, so why is a similar level
of
> service not being offered by Telecom to full rate JetStream customers?
>
> Previous responses to my question have been along the lines of
> "there's no incentive for Telecom to offer this pricing model". An
> email I received from Telecom this morning offers a few bland words
> and confirms that Telecom has no plans to change their JetStream
> charging structure. So how can we bring pressure to bear on Telecom
> to correct this glaring anomaly and differentiate between national and

> international traffic in their pricing model for full rate JetStream
> customers?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Simon
>
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