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886444 2010-05-20 02:13:00 Using between 25 and 40GB a month, will be (trying to) stick to 25 from now on though.

I'm thinking Clear or Orcon at the moment, as the only reason I was ever with telecom was big time. At with Clear for calling, so it makes sense to stick with them, I think there is a $10 a month discount if you have all the services with them?

What's the consensus?
wratterus (105)
886445 2010-05-20 02:27:00 As far as I see it there's no difference. Contracts, like politicians promises, are made to be broken. Some time back I left Telecom for Orcon and was promised no cap for some 60.00 per month. A while later they put the price for the same service up to $100.00 so I went back to Telecom. Never did sign up for Bigtime and I have a 10 Gig cap which is enough for me. Sweep (90)
886446 2010-05-20 02:30:00 Good question.

With big time going, I'm thinking I dont need a landline either, save another $40 & just used 2Deg batphone
Any good options for Intenet only (no phones)

Wireless ISP option perhaps?? (I think they bundle VOIP into the package)
sroby (11519)
886447 2010-05-20 02:34:00 afaik unless you in a central you can get woosh, a few isps have naked adsl but they charge you $20 abouts for the voip phone. like xnet, slingshot, orcon (+) plans.

telstra cable internet is the only other that i know has a totally optional phone but not their cheaper plans, think it's the $50 plans and up... the cheaper ones you must have a telstra network landline.
Nomad (952)
886448 2010-05-20 06:27:00 For ****s sake. I knew this would happen again though, just like Go Large. Pity they're dropping it completely and not just stopping new signups.

I usually only use 20 - 50GB per month (total upload and download) and at $60 it's very nice if I want to use more than that too.

They do offer a 40GB plan, but that is $80 a month

If they would supply a 50GB plan for $50\$60 I would buy it, but this is just stupid. Looks like I may indeed be changing ISPs after all - but then I lose my Yahoo!Xtra mail (actually good) and Flickr Pro (actually useful)

****ING IDIOTS!!!!
Agent_24 (57)
886449 2010-05-20 06:28:00 Slingshot.

My nDSL plan is 25gb for $80, plus 2am to 8am offpeak (you still get 6mbit offpeak) plus data banking (oh and a free iTalk line)
Dannz (1668)
886450 2010-05-20 07:25:00 We were only paying $90 for 20Gb and home phone with Vodafone, now on nDSL costing nothing for a year. So when we have to start paying again next year nDSL is actually not going to offer us much price wise at all yet we won't have a phone line. nDSL should be half of what a standard package is gary67 (56)
886451 2010-05-20 08:28:00 You could try the Telecom 60Gig / plan.. We use it at work.. paulw (1826)
886452 2010-05-20 10:38:00 Not unless it's the same price as Big Time or lower, $59.95 was already a bit much for me but I chose it because it was unlimited and had fullspeed upstream

I can only see a 40GB plan on their website for $80 anyway...
Agent_24 (57)
886453 2010-05-20 10:47:00 I don't know what you are all complaining about. We are with Orcon on a 1GB plan & they have just doubled it to 2GB for no xtra cost.Isn't that nice of them? If you look at %%s thata a 100% increase for nowt. PJ :rolleyes::lol: Poppa John (284)
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