http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15228944^15309^^nbv^,00.html
"Telstra has justified limiting its ADSL broadband speeds to 1.5Mbit/s by arguing that there's insufficient demand from consumers from faster broadband."
These turkeys at telstra need their heads examined if they think people want their slow internet in preference to faster options.
No demand for faster speeds? If everyone had a broadband service that could download a full movie in 15 minutes, compared to one that allowed a full movie to be downloaded over the course of a week, would anyone buy the slower one?
If Telstra won't budge, the government must force them to be more consumer friendly, or increase competition radically by breaking up Telstra.
My copper phone line has been sitting in the ground outside my house for decades. Now Telstra is earning an extra $60 per month off it simply by plugging in some equipment at the exchange and linking that exchange to the internet.
What do I get in exchange for my extra $60? Internet that slows down if I go over 10GB of usage, despite the dirt-cheap pricing of ISP data links.
Telstra euphemistically calls this 'shaping'. In my opinion, the only thing that needs to be shaped is the face of the corporate executive that thought this up - with my fist!
- Kevin Cobley
We are not the only ones...
"Telstra has justified limiting its ADSL broadband speeds to 1.5Mbit/s by arguing that there's insufficient demand from consumers from faster broadband."
These turkeys at telstra need their heads examined if they think people want their slow internet in preference to faster options.
No demand for faster speeds? If everyone had a broadband service that could download a full movie in 15 minutes, compared to one that allowed a full movie to be downloaded over the course of a week, would anyone buy the slower one?
If Telstra won't budge, the government must force them to be more consumer friendly, or increase competition radically by breaking up Telstra.
My copper phone line has been sitting in the ground outside my house for decades. Now Telstra is earning an extra $60 per month off it simply by plugging in some equipment at the exchange and linking that exchange to the internet.
What do I get in exchange for my extra $60? Internet that slows down if I go over 10GB of usage, despite the dirt-cheap pricing of ISP data links.
Telstra euphemistically calls this 'shaping'. In my opinion, the only thing that needs to be shaped is the face of the corporate executive that thought this up - with my fist!
- Kevin Cobley
We are not the only ones...
