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Article #931Re: Tel$tra Big?150 and Essential plans are in Beta
From: Rod Speed
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:57
Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2001 08:57
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Grizzly <Abuse@bigpond.com> wrote in message news:sxDm6.4230$v5.14637@newsfeeds.bigpond.com... > Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote >> DrWho <drwho@perthmail.com> wrote >>> 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 I find that very hard to believe. Plenty of pops get changed with services that aint in beta. >>> 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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