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#412484 3-Dec-2010 13:21

Are the plans invite only at the moment, or can we get it we ring up the help desk and ask really nicely?

40GB/month is no where near enough, ~$30/month in overage isn't much fun.

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#412487 3-Dec-2010 13:26

tumnasgt: Are the plans invite only at the moment, or can we get it we ring up the help desk and ask really nicely?

40GB/month is no where near enough, ~$30/month in overage isn't much fun.?

Try $150 in overage, and if I was on telecom and paying $2 a gig in overage it would be more like $450 in overage as there is no free offpeak with them.

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#412493 3-Dec-2010 13:37

Over the weekend I'm going to pull out the last bill & calculator and do some arithmatic to work out what sort of savings this provides...

When you throw in all the calling options and stuff, it gets quite complicated..!

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#412503 3-Dec-2010 13:56

I got on this plan when I sent a complaint that I could not select to go to dial speed after I had gone over my data cap. This was via the Telecom web site. I thought that if I didn't let them know that I wanted to be able to choose this if I wanted, then they would not know. Obviously they had be thinking about this, as I was then rung by someone offering this trial plan to me.

So not sure, but I think if you don't try to get on it now you will not be offered it. Nice talking and showing that you are experiencing real problems now might help.

tumnasgt: Are the plans invite only at the moment, or can we get it we ring up the help desk and ask really nicely?

40GB/month is no where near enough, ~$30/month in overage isn't much fun.

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#412793 4-Dec-2010 12:40

I have tried to get on it, but most of the CSR's don't actually know about the new plans, or rather give you the impression they don't know. According to Telecoms usage meter, we are 59Gb over our 40Gb lol, seems abit much lol would love to get on the 80Gb with capping NOW!

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Ultimate Geek

#412847 4-Dec-2010 18:24

Can anyone advise,

Telecom phoned us today and asked if we wished to change to the new total home broadband.

The person at home at the time wasnt sure, so asked them to phone back next week Monday.

One question, usually do around $15 worth of national calling each month, sometimes more, sometimes less.

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Under the new Total Broadband plans, can we add the same $10 addon as the other total home plans, think its called talk it up downunder and includes unlimited calling to NZ and AUS?

PerryNZ

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#414764 8-Dec-2010 20:41

kyhwana2: Why is it cheaper in Auckland/wgtn and chch?

I think there's realistic competition in those areas.
Elsewhere, they have the 'suckers' over a barrel.

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#414796 8-Dec-2010 21:55

PerryNZ:
I think there's realistic competition in those areas.
Elsewhere, they have the 'suckers' over a barrel.

Well thats one way to look at it, a slightly negative one.

The other way is that the density is high enough in those areas that they have a lower cost per connection. I would rather see it that way than the same price nationwide.

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#414844 9-Dec-2010 04:09

richms:
PerryNZ:
I think there's realistic competition in those areas.
Elsewhere, they have the 'suckers' over a barrel.

Well thats one way to look at it, a slightly negative one.

The other way is that the density is high enough in those areas that they have a lower cost per connection. I would rather see it that way than the same price nationwide.

Using such logic one should also hold true that country folk should pay more for their land lines - its all about swings and roundabouts. Also in fairness Telecom is bound to a legislation where pretty much the rest get off scott free so it is hardly a level playing field.

"When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called 'the People's Stick'"

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#414978 9-Dec-2010 12:58

kawaii:

Using such logic one should also hold true that country folk should pay more for their land lines - its all about swings and roundabouts. Also in fairness Telecom is bound to a legislation where pretty much the rest get off scott free so it is hardly a level playing field.

Yes, they should, the legislation should go. The only way telecom can correct for that legislation is with bundle deals like this, for the basic landline price they cant put it up for anyone higher than the cost of living.

I expect that they will continue to put it up like that and offer more bundle deals like this to keep customers on all 3 services with them until such time that the kiwishare obligations are removed and transfered to be operated by some bureaucratic govt department that only exists to prop up rural freeloaders, much like they are doing with the fiber stuff.

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#415005 9-Dec-2010 13:31

richms: prop up rural freeloaders

Do try to recall that if the farmers stop
working, not much later, you stop eating.

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#415016 9-Dec-2010 13:38

PerryNZ:
richms: prop up rural freeloaders

Do try to recall that if the farmers stop
working, not much later, you stop eating.

Good point - presumably all the farmers that have managed to farm the land for decades in the absence of ultra fast Broadband are now going to give up their livelihood and move to the city?

Anyone maintaining that not giving urban priced and specced broadband to farmers will result in the mss abandoning of farming in NZ probably needs a dose of reality.

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#415026 9-Dec-2010 13:46

PerryNZ:
richms: prop up rural freeloaders

Do try to recall that if the farmers stop
working, not much later, you stop eating.

Perhaps if they stopped getting new utes and tractors all the time, while complaining about the worst drought/rain/whatever in 40 years, they would be able to pay market rates for it. Perhaps they could get their monopoly of fontera in on building a network for them with all the massive profits they make. Just stop expecting me to have to pay double or more what a landline costs in other countries just so that they can be propped up using a archaic method of accounting that dates back to before the internet, broadband or competition.

I have to pay many grand a year on rates on a section too small for even one cow. Perhaps the farmers could subsidize that for me, and the roads and other infrastructure in urban areas?

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#415035 9-Dec-2010 14:00

I think the most recent posts have taken the topic way off on a petty tangent.

PerryNZ

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#415046 9-Dec-2010 14:16

In a perfect world, there would be no reason for
cross-subsidies. The world isn't perfect; this part
of it, less so. A standard vehicle licence fee, for
1,000km or 100,000km per year is another, ahh,
'imperfection' we all endure.

Most plaints for strict user-pays cease to be
heard when some sort of unexpected reversal
takes place.

To suggest that Telecom does not take full and
sometimes improper use of is quasi-monopolistic
market position also needs a spoonful of the
afore-mentioned reality medicine. A perusal of
the Commerce Commission's files may help.

I deal with Telecom. I don't like it, but my choices
are severely constrained. I have this nagging
feeling that they know that, too.

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