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| Thread ID: 133045 | 2013-05-25 01:59:00 | Telecom is the worst company I've ever had to deal with | Vicx (11114) | PC World Chat |
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| 1343137 | 2013-06-05 00:29:00 | Sorry what? Chorus is making VDSL wholesale the same price as ADSL on the 7th, apparently, and the availability of VDSL from more ISPs should increase following that, unless I misunderstood the whole thing (again) |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1343138 | 2013-06-05 01:30:00 | Chorus is making VDSL wholesale the same price as ADSL on the 7th, apparently, and the availability of VDSL from more ISPs should increase following that, unless I misunderstood the whole thing (again) Sounds too good to be true! Hopefully it isn't. |
wratterus (105) | ||
| 1343139 | 2013-06-05 02:20:00 | Chorus is making VDSL wholesale the same price as ADSL on the 7th, apparently, and the availability of VDSL from more ISPs should increase following that, unless I misunderstood the whole thing (again) Sort of, it's not quite that simple. They're also including an additional $5 a month for some sort of wiring charge, I'm still not quite clear on it, so that's more expensive. Add on to the fact that VDSL2 routers usually cost a lot more, ISP's in general give away routers for free so they've gotta recoup that cost. Then there's the fact that if you were getting the same sub-par speeds you get with Slingshot / Orcon at the moment on their ADSL plans while on a VDSL2 plan, you'd be furious, so they've got to have more bandwidth up their sleeves for peak times which also means the relative cost-per-GB is more (Because there's more bandwidth sitting around idle during non-peak times). It's cheaper though, that's for sure, and it starts in two days... Which is great when I'm about to launch VDSL2 offerings myself ;) 300GB for Naked VDSL2, cost around $110 including a VoIP line? Sounds pretty cost-effective :D |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1343140 | 2013-06-05 02:33:00 | I guess we shall see what happens. They always seem happy to give out "free" routers provided you go on a contract. Funny though, the price never drops after the contract ends and you've paid for the router! |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1343141 | 2013-06-05 03:40:00 | Yeh and the "$200 worth of router" only costs them like $25-$35, depending on the ISP and the router they're giving out. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
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