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Article #930Re: Tel$tra Big?150 and Essential plans are in Beta
From: Grizzly
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:48
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 01:48
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-- Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:3a9b066c$1@news.iprimus.com.au... > > DrWho <drwho@perthmail.com> wrote in message news:38ak9tc0t23h4acgu1j6anu1kk66mjb3oe@4ax.com... > > Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote > > >> The Big150 has ALWAYS been like that, for years now. > > > Is it not time the Big?150 comes out of beta then? > > God knows if its actually still in beta or if its just a web site fuckup. still in beta, actually changing pops from memory > > > Is Tel$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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