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169564 2003-08-22 14:31:00 Apparently Walker Wireless will be servicing the Queenstown/Southland area within a year or two. 256k I think it is, bye bye adsl :) woot! PoWa (203)
169565 2003-08-22 16:40:00 If you would like to express your views directly to Telecom regarding their new adsl package, they have a Feedback (www.telecom.co.nz) email page. If do decide to impart some of your wisdom.

Can I humbly suggest, that you do so with cough! good grace and manners as that is more likely to bring reason than flaming them. I would further suggest that you keep your correspondence to very simple terms, so that it may be readily understood by the good people at Telecom as I reason that they do not have any capacity to understand common logic and any assistance you can give in this respect would, no doubt, be greatly appreciated by them.

Murray ;P
Murray P (44)
169566 2003-08-22 21:18:00 Amazing of all the dozens of responses on this post, not a single one in favour of their new plans - I hope that will also be the general public's perception, because I concur that the deals are totally lame Greg S (201)
169567 2003-08-22 21:40:00 I have to say this has been both a badly kept secret and quite a disappointing non-event.

The 256kb limit is attractive to me as I get sod all more than that anyway on my 1Gb account. I am just not sure I will bother.

I can't see people rushing to this at any level. If they were given a report card I think the bottom line would be:

Must try harder.

robo.
robo (205)
169568 2003-08-22 22:49:00 Stay with full speed Robo if you do not use a load of bandwidth. nomad (3693)
169569 2003-08-22 23:05:00 I think it is rather pathetic and I can't see many people at all going for it. If it was unlimited national traffic I know plenty of people that would be going for it. -=JM=- (16)
169570 2003-08-22 23:45:00 WHAT??????????

TeleCom aren't going to see me in their internet products at all within the next two years at least. :^O

BUT i Need the Speed, because i am only at 56 k thru Freenet ($15 flatrate)
X-(
Any Sugestions????
ilikelinux (1418)
169571 2003-08-23 00:04:00 At least give us 5GB cap. Many other nations have it as 256k minimum ADSL speed with no cap. Some even provide a $10 more plan for 512k unlimited.

256k in NZ is essentially a premium product!
I did some maths (taking GB = 1,000MB for simplicity):
256k option will be $960nz a month ($60 per month then 20c per MB over thereafter).
10GB - $1,960nz

Like I said, Jetline package has ADSL and phonline for $94.95 with fullspeed JS with 500MB cap. This is essentially $40 phone and $55 for JS, which is better than $70 for a slower service with the same cap.
nomad (3693)
169572 2003-08-23 00:25:00 My mistake. I forgot to account for the 1GB and 2GB plans, also ISP cost is not $35 but $20 (as by Ihug). Still its not attractive!
5GB = 870$, 10gb = 1680.
Full speed JS at $50 and $70 1/2GB cap is attractive with respect. (plus isp cost).
X-(
nomad (3693)
169573 2003-08-23 00:57:00 You could try Slingshot with their Accelerator product, which speeds up Web pages, Text and graphics by about 3x, but does nothing for file downloads. MalcolmDick (4453)
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