Mark is correct that this was announced a good year ago, and then was
delayed by Telecom. I myself moved off Jetstart, or as it became known,
Jetstream Starter, late last year, and went to a 2mb/10gb plan late last
year. This was a joint ISP/Telecom plan, using what was known as Jetstream
Partnering (JPP) - now this too is being withdrawn, and I have had to go to
a UBS plan with my ISP.

I am now getting 2mb/10gb (and the 10gb is on International Traffic only)
for $64.95 (JPP was $69.95 and the 10gb was all traffic).

Now sure what your letter about the "full amount of $65/month as they should
have" is about, as Jetstart (128/128) was always around $30!

I suggest you check out all Xtra's plans at
http://www.telecom.co.nz/chm/0,5123,203071-202469,00.html, or check out
another ISP, which may deliver better options.

Rgds

Paul

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-adsl@unixathome.org [mailto:owner-adsl@unixathome.org] On Behalf
Of Mark Foster
Sent: Sunday, 11 September 2005 1:28 p.m.
To: Ines Winz
Cc: adsl@lists.unixathome.org
Subject: Re: adsl plans

On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Ines Winz wrote:

> Hi,
> We are currently on an Xtra Jet Stream Starter plan. We are reasonably
> happy with this, $30/month and 4Gb limit with a fair speed. Now we got
> a slightly dodgy, rather unprofessional letter from Xtra, telling us
> that they are withdrawing the Jet Stream Starter, that they didn't
> charge us the full amount of $65/month as they should have, and that
> they want to move us to a $50/month broadband explorer plan. Now we
> only have a week left until they change the plan.
>
> Is there any way we can keep our old plan? We don't want a small
> increase in speed for a large increase in price and think this is
> quite a rip off.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> Cheers, Ines + Robert.

Short answer... probably not.
The announcement around the withdrawl of the Jetstream Starter product was
made more than a year ago, so you've had plenty of time to weigh your
alternatives.

My reccomendation is that you look at the current plan list and choose the
one that has the best cost v benefit ratio for you.

Welcome to the world of Broadband as we know it :)

Mark.

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