For someone living alone a no frills fibre product is a great idea. 

concordnz: 50/10 speed! That's terrible!
Worse than some ADSL.

Don't touch it with a large barge pole!

You're obviously too young to remember dialup ;)

Now I'm wondering how many people here used eWorld. We had it at school.

concordnz: I actually remember a 300 baud modem.
(and before that a device you put the handset of the phone into which picked up the sounds coming down the actual phone, and wi had a small speaker built in to the other end, to 'transmit' the replying sounds through the microphone part of the handset. (I bet very few people have used one of those....)

I had a modem for my Commodore 64 some time around 1984, used to access Compunet.

Now I feel really old.

concordnz: Compunet or CompuServe?

Compunet

The biggest area of difference if support, or lack thereof. For businesses, you pay quite a price premium not just for the ISP's support but actually in wholesale charges to provide a faster service restoration ETA.

I know some people sniff at low speed plans but Skinny have one under offer at the moment (until 20th July). By the looks of it 30/10.

4 months free (on 12 month contract) for $55 pm. If you have a skinny mobile $27 or above, you get another $10 off that.

concordnz: Try having Windows downloading 2gb of updates or O365 updates while you are trying to clear your emails or surf the Net. (or someone else's tablet or phone updating when you are trying to get an email in, you are waiting fotlr.

It's not just a persons Internet or email - it's all the background updates that happen on devices around the house to keep them secure, which chokes a small pipe...

concordnz: Try having Windows downloading 2gb of updates or O365 updates while you are trying to clear your emails or surf the Net. (or someone else's tablet or phone updating when you are trying to get an email in, you are waiting fotlr.

It's not just a persons Internet or email - it's all the background updates that happen on devices around the house to keep them secure, which chokes a small pipe...

2GB at 50Mbs will take around 6 minutes to download at line speed. 

You aren't really supporting your argument so far. 

It may not suit you, but 50Mbps is plenty for many many families and they would likely be quite willing to make some compromises at that price. As to whether that works for you, seemingly not, so you will pay more and get more. Easy really.