Hi,

This questions is somewhat similar to the now closed thread "Overcharged by Slingshot for months - warning to existing customers" except that I have a different intention (and for that reason I didn't ask for the thread to be reopened). I don't wish to complain or discuss whether this is a good or bad thing, or how common it is. I just want to understand if there's a reason in my case beyond the fact it's the way things are normally done. 

I'm still on the $80 AYCE plan, basically an unbundled unlimited plan. This isn't naked DSL, but the unbundled broadband only price as I had my homeline and tolls with another provider (long reasons I won't go in to). Because of the upcoming changes, I was looking in to what to do. One thing I noticed is that if Slingshot is correct, I'm actually going to be paying less, next month $75 instead of $80.

Looking around a bit more it seems like they've had a $53 unbundled unlimited plan for people with their homeline (and as far as I can tell, tolls) with another provider which wasn't a promo or anything. I don't know how long it's existed since I don't think Slingshot actually advertised it much if as they've been trying to get people on bundled plans only but I wonder if it came about at around the same time the bundled unlimited moved to $89 in May.

Anyway my question is whether there's a reason I wasn't moved other than me being grandfathered on AYCE and it was the way things are done. I understand as mentioned in the earlier thread that these plan changes sometimes come with new new limits or other terms and conditions changes which means they're not definitely better, so people may want to stay on them. (In the other case, iTalk wasn't bundled anymore.) Wondering if that was the case here. I seem to recall someone (ScottR?) saying in the only Slingshot forums that they would generally move people if there was no disadvantage but I do understand there's no guarantee and SS isn't the only one to do this. (And for this sort of complicated question, I wasn't sure SS support is the best bet.) 

In my case, the only difference between new and old I can think of is my old plan seems to be quite heavily shaped. Well it didn't used to be so bad, but it's definitely been for the past few months as I found from my own testing. I don't think this is just the prioritisation since P2P stuff can be very very slow even at offpeak times. (Actually that was one of the recent changes, it seemed to become bad even at offpeak times.) I guess similar to the Unlimited One plan although I'm on the AYCE plan which preceeded all those. Now this sounds like it's a disadvantage but depending on how they manage the traffic pools I guess it could be better for some use cases.

Cheers