Posts Tagged ‘Rate Caps’
Why the hell is the net so expensive and limited in Australia?
For world leaders in telecommunication I’ve always wondered why the hell we have such expensive internet, mean my friends in the U.S and elsewhere are amazed in this day and age we have rate caps as well as the cost we pay. Mean we have some “super cheap” boradband but like all good things always a catch e.g need a credit card, sorry I think my cash is better than credit. or it’s unreliable and not the most secure thing wireless. yeah hijackable net just what I want. $70 bucks a months seems excessive for normal adsl 25gig plans at 1500/256 and add to the fact that I was on a 400mb plan which like the 12.5 and 25 gig plans I thought was capped at 400mb, $500 bill when 12.5 gig is only $60 so i switched back to a 1.5 gig plan which oddly didn’t engage, I now have a $4500 bill for using 17 gig, now considering a 25 gig plan was only 70 bucks seems like theft to me and amazing it’s not illegal? trust me I’m disputing that and the $500 bill, so why the hell so expensive and shitty here? and I don’t buy the bandwidth excuse, users still go full speed regardless of traffic mean 1 million peeps pay for fukll speed net they get it, the system doesn’t fold or they get told sorry you can’t connect too many people on and such so that is a load of shit (believable in the dial up days for surebut that’s actual analog phone line not designed for it digital is different) and other countries with way biggger populations in theory should then have it worse than us, especially considering most have shit netowrks too. and when did uploading become downloading? by definition a download is a file coming from elsewhere to my computer and if i send a file to another pc that is an upload, but they still tack it on? love to test that one in court. So why oh why are we screwed over so badly, not just in the net, our dollar rate last year at 96c U.S shows the problem aint us, our country does quite well, so why do we suffer?
I want fast cheap reliable net and I want it now, we aren’t a 3rd world country and if this issue is piracy wel let the police not the isps deal with those breaking the law. why punish legal users for those doing the wrong thing? I just cannot see a decent reason behind the highway robbery our isp’s are commiting and the rate capping we endure.
ok too top it off after reading around i’ve seen that the average TOS of any isp are BS and that if you tell your isp you’ll see them in court they settle and fast as most TOS wouldn’t stand up under scrutiny in court, most wouldn’t be considered legal, and well until they get dragged into court nobody bothers to check the legality of them for the legally inexperienced public???? can anyone confirn this? does any body check isp’s and telcos from the oz govt? sounds like a good quick solution for the bs 5k my isp reckons i owe
woolybooly some of us tried and thats exactly what i was saying, if anything our net should be less than yours. but some people who understand oz telecommunication regulations would be handy, but thank you for the example.