For me I end up spending an extra $40 a month, pushing my bill well into the
range of ~$130 a month which is unacceptable given it's only ~40GB of data.

The only winners here are business users - small businesses I know being
extorted at present on UBS make significant savings, but residential users
who use more than 10GB a month now get extorted instead. Seems like Telecom
have just shifted the cost around a bit instead of actually reducing the
price.

Looking at Telecom's wholesale costs - they're charging more than what
national transit costs, just for data between the end user and the ISP, let
alone to the internet.

All I wanted was 512kbit upload because 128kbit with a family of four using
the internet just doesn't work. The moment one of us tries something like
sending an email with an attachment or uploading a photo to an online album
we all end up crawling to a halt. Instead I got a $40 increase in my bill
and no extra speed.

-Scott

> For me, I was on the 2mbps autosense, so the frst 1GB for
> $39.95 then $10 for every block of 10GB after that, and I
> normally do between 1GB-11GB, so normally pay $49.95 per month.
>
> In other words, If I download between 9 and 11GB in a month,
> I'll be paying $10 more than I did previously.

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