RE: Re: IS it true? (BT bandwidth capping)

["UKHA" <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's reminded me of some hunting I did a year or so ago when NTL brought
in their 1GB/day cap,
I looked around and was shocked at the cost of adsl in Australia in
particular... made the UK look cheap.

But I think it is definitely the way it's going to go - back to the good
ol' days of dial-up,
but instead of pence per min, it'll be pence per megabyte.

The only question I have is that in Tokyo that have 28MBit broadband of
some description -
does anyone know how the pricing structure of that works???

Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: David Buckley [mailto:db@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 01 July 2004 21:04
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Re: IS it true? (BT bandwidth capping)


--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Dean Barrett" <dean@r...> wrote:
> Had an Email from Nildram today detailing PAYG Broadband
> ?15.99 for 50hrs or 1gig/month.
>
> Is this the shape of things to come ??

Here is sunny NZ I'm on a package called "surf unlimited"

Its 256Kbit/sec, with a 10gig/month cap.  Costs me $69.95 a month,
which is 24.60UKP.  If I exceed 10gig, then bandwidth drops to 64K.

You can get faster packages, but they paradoxically lower gig
allowances (ie 1 or 2mbit/sec with 1 or 2 gig/month cap, then
20c/gig therafter) or slower packages with more allowance, eg, 128Kb
with 15GB and x cents per gig thereafter.

In practice, even whilst in the UK, as a houshold we were well
within 10gig/month.  I've just checked now; we're at 4907.37 MB and
the month runs out on the 11th.