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Re: Tel$tra Big?150 and Essential plans are in Beta

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From: Grizzly
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:48
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Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> DrWho <drwho@perthmail.com> wrote in message
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> > Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>
> >> The Big150 has ALWAYS been like that, for years now.
>
> > Is it not time the Big?150 comes out of beta then?
>
> God knows if its actually still in beta or if its just a web site fuckup.

still in beta, actually changing pops from memory

>
> > Is Tel$tra using this beta,as a way of getting out of complaints?
>
> No evidence of that.
>
> > I never knew that the Big?150 was still in beta. I was
> > never told and the only way you can find out,is by going to
> > a link that I and other people have never bothered to go to.
>
> > I think Tel$tra are not being very open about this beta network.
>
> Or maybe its just another Telstra fuckup with the Big150.
>
> >> Depends on where you look. Its always been on the web site.
>
> > Not good enough. Some Users have signed up for the
> > Essential plan.not knowing that this plan is in beta. Tel$tra
> > adverts on T.V do not say it is in beta. When you sign up
> > you are not told it is in beta. When you have a look at
> > this plan on their website,you are not told it is in beta.
>
> True.
>
> > A User asked why he was getting a horrid time on the Essential
> > plan. The support officer said it was because the plan was in beta.
> > The User was shocked to find out that he was on a beta plan.
> > Tel$tra *are* misleading users that sign up for this plan.
>
> Maybe.
>
> > I have been with ISP's that have had beta servers
> > and they have always been upfront about anyone
> > that wants to use these servers. Tel$tra have not.
>
> They did very early on with what became the Big150.
>
> > They also like using the word *unlimited*.
>
> Not in isolation. They use 'unlimited hours'
>
> They make it very clear that its not unlimited downloads.
>
> > The Essential plan is not unlimited,because their are limits with this
plan.
>
> And they never say its unlimited, they say unlimited hours.
> The total hours you use it a month is unlimited. The amount
> you can download is limited, and so is the session length too.
>
>
>
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