I know after the big time situation, Telecom hastely pulled the Big time plan, and hasn't had any unlimited plan since then, however I was wondering, has the situation changed?
Telecom claims they couldn't afford to maintain it at the time, due to people abusing the system.
However, I'm aware the SX Cable guys, slashing the costs on international data rates, therefore allowing most major telcos, to introduce data cabs 500gb and/or larger. and more and more ISPs are reintruducing unlimited data plans, (Orcon, Slingshot, Worldnet), and those ISPs offer unlimited VDSL, and Fibre, for next to nothing, and not to mention the Chrous V Commerece Commision drama.
Surely, if they can afford to provide their customers with unlimited data, over technology superior to ADSL2+, (Something Telecom claimed they couldn't afford), then surely it's time that Telecom consider reintroducing an unlimited plan. If other ISPs, can maintain it over VDSL2, and UFB (I'm saying that again), even if it's mostly coming through a cache, then it should be a piece of cake.
With Telecom being NZ's largest, and flagship Telco, they should be leading the way, and remove data caps.
The excuse of "Due to people downloading Terabytes of data, and high speeds, and we're unable to maintain, it no longer" is getting old now, as look at Orcon, and Slingshot, and I haven't heard one story of any person sucessfully breaking through the shaping system, bringing the unlimited plans to it's knees.
What do you guys think?
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