Ok, doing some quick sums while waiting for a late-running CityRail train (don’t get me started…), an equivalent price for my home internet connection would run somewhere in the order of $3 million each year. And I’m on one of my ISP’s cheaper plans. I can understand paying more for mobile internet, but when the cost of a phone call is very expensive at a rate of 50c per thirty seconds, and I can download a MB of data in a minute or two on my phone, I can’t see how they can justify a 5000x increase in price compared to the landline data transfer.
The more I think about it, the more easily I can see how Telstra can pay ridiculous amounts of money to it’s bosses (thanks Dave).
RodeoClown: slightly more annoyed than last time.
no worries
I don’t quite get it, but that’s okay. I suppose now you are locked into a year contract or something like that. bummer. Good that you’re warning others about it.
That’s crazy! Surely they have to fore-warn you in the terms and conditions?
I’m sure there is a warning in there somewhere, but it wasn’t made apparent – more like lots of points about being able to use the internet anywhere, and that there was a small amount of my monthly fee dedicated to internet usage… what they didn’t say was that the $5 offered would almost cover me collecting my email…
Gah!