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growler_southOur lovely ISP, Telecom, are retiring their traffic-shaped all you can eat plan. The official word is that too many people were complaining about the traffic management, which isn't surprising given the low IQ of the general populace. Look, people, it's unlimited because they can slow you down if you download too much. Dont complain if you get slowed down, just move to a plan that isnt traffic managed!
In any case, we're about to be moved to Telecom's next best offering for high bandwidth users: 40GB/month for $79.95 and $20/GB for additional data. Which means, at our current use of 300GB/month, our bill will go from $59.95 to $5279.95 a month.
Unsurprisingly, we're unlikely to be staying with Telecom. Other ISPs charge $2/GB, which is still outrageous but bearable.
In any case, we're about to be moved to Telecom's next best offering for high bandwidth users: 40GB/month for $79.95 and $20/GB for additional data. Which means, at our current use of 300GB/month, our bill will go from $59.95 to $5279.95 a month.
Unsurprisingly, we're unlikely to be staying with Telecom. Other ISPs charge $2/GB, which is still outrageous but bearable.
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Date: 2010-07-02 02:51 am (UTC)Used to be done that way some years back, but gradually the ISPs gave up on it. I think a large part of the reason is that it's hard to look at an address and say for sure whether it's in NZ or not without a human giving it the once over.