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RE: Telecom surepticiously has changed Jetstart +

From: LEE Tet Yoon <leety_at_ihug.co.nz>
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 06:34:08 +1200
Message-Id: <6.2.3.0.2.20050807063111.04e9b2d0@pop.ihug.co.nz>

At 11:00 a.m. 5/08/2005, you wrote:
>Like Mark, Joel are you sure you are not confused.
>
>Jestart was supposed to be pulled out late last year, but this was delayed,
>and I believe they have only recently announced that this is fonially going
>to happen.
>
>I have not heard anything about us users who signed up to the faster plans
>before the decision by Telecom to keep the existing 192kps customers as-is.
>
>However, according to my ISP, this is all academic now anyway. A week ago,
>I received a letter from Maxnet telling me that the Jetstream Partnering
>Programme (JPP) is being withdrawn by Telecom at the end of August, so there
>goes 192kps up rate, fullstop! I have to switch across to a UBS plan, or
>get my Jetstream service cut-off by Telecom at the end of the month. No
>alternative to UBS provided.

Hmm this is interesting, I wonder if it means Joel has really had his 192k upload reduced to 128k or he has simply been switched from JS+ to UBS by his ISP without his ISP telling him about the change?

He did not mention what his ISP is although all this talk about Telecom would suggest he is using Xtra which would mean the above is not the case

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