[wellylug] Re: New prices for TelstraClear Cable

Mangee mangee at paradise.net.nz
Wed Mar 3 11:30:32 NZDT 2004


In think the new plans offer a viable alternative for "residential" use... bonus if you live inna flat - with a few other ppl to pay for it too, and the excess usable charges are slowly dropping.

> The 1GB one should tempt people off of dialup though - most dialup users won't use that much, and it'll leave the phone line free :)
Most.. ;) I think my largest month so far was close to 15GB on dial-up.  Like you say.. leave it on overnight (and all day).  The joy of free local calls and all you can eat dial-up.

> One other thing I'm concerned about is the lack of any mention of
> free/cheap NZ traffic. If that's gone, then all of a sudden life isn't
> so rosy. No more cheap net backup :(.
Despite them being called "paradise Highspeed/Lightspeed" plans, paradise's webpage on traffic etc still isn't updated: still mentions 2c/20c for national/international. with the quote:  "Any traffic to or from New Zealand sites (national traffic) is charged at 1/10th of the normal traffic charge, while traffic to or from a site outside New Zealand (international traffic) is charged at the full traffic rate."
http://paradise.net.nz/standard/pages/main/plans/highspeed.html
http://paradise.net.nz/standard/pages/main/plans/traffic.html
Check back soon I suppose?

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