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Posted by cwdjrxyz on 08/09/07 01:56
On Aug 8, 6:11 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> Notice that
>
> <http://www.virginbroadband.com.au/wirelessbroadband/broadband-at-
> home.aspx>
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> employs a picture that includes the "fine print" conditions for a
> broadband plan. There is a question whether this was deliberate,
> in respect to the fine print, to make it hard to read or just
> incompetence?
I don't know how things are done in Australia, but I would guess the
fine print would be much more likely intentional for a US company, and
there might be a page or two written in it in terms that lawyers best
understand.
We now have a lot of broadband competition in the US and prices have
greatly dropped in the last two years. My telephone company ATT has
teamed up with Yahoo to offer 1 dialup and 2 DSL plans. The standard
price(not limited time sucker ad price) for the elite plan I have is
now about US$ 35 per month if you use the ATT telephone service, and I
am getting a measured download of about 5 Mbps and an upload of about
650 kbps, if the server is not overloaded or there are not other
problems on the web that slow everything down. Of course you have to
live in a city fairly close to the telephone office to enroll in this
top speed DSL plan. Download is not measured - I can download as much
as I want without speed being reduced. Last night I downloaded a 1.9
GB mpeg2 old classic movie in about 2 hours. Even considering that 1
USD = about 1.2 AD, the Virgin plan seems very expensive for what you
get - well under 1Mbps download and restrictions on download
bandwidth. Of course conditions are quite different in the US and
Australia. Perhaps Virgin needs a little more broadband competition to
bring down prices. Well over half of US computer users(perhaps around
70%) are on broadband of some sort now.
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