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Posted by dorayme on 08/09/07 02:50
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<1186624566.168348.276840@j4g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
cwdjrxyz <spamtrap2@cwdjr.info> wrote:
> On Aug 8, 6:11 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> > Notice that
> >
> > <http://www.virginbroadband.com.au/wirelessbroadband/broadband-at-
> > home.aspx>
> >
> > 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.
I think what attracted my daughter and her husband to this plan
was the telephone part of the plan... the dorayme half of that
happy union likes to gab a lot on the phone. They use a dial up
service for internet at the moment.
I agree, it looks a bit expensive for the speed. Here you can
generally get between 1 and 4GB download limit for a month at
reasonable enough speeds (between 1.5 and 6.5 Mbps) for between
$30 and $40 Aust.
--
dorayme
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