How broadband pay-per-use will change web apps

Re:How broadband pay-per-use will change web apps by Waywocket on Sunday December 12, 2010 @04:57PM (#1998168)

>(There's also an entry level 30Gb for $30 plan for your grandparents)

I managed to find a real unlimited connection (here in England) so I might be a little out of touch with broadband allowances, but I think 30GB is on or above the high end of what you can get here in most places without spending a mint. Of course, they all label it as 'unlimited', which apparently is legal despite being very blantantly fraudulent advertising.

Hell, T-Mobile recently sent me some blurb trying to persuade me to replace my ADSL with their 'unlimited'* mobile broadband.

* Fair use policy applies. Bandwidth is limited to 3GB/month.

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Re:How broadband pay-per-use will change web apps by nl on Sunday December 12, 2010 @06:04PM (#1998395)

30Gb is pretty low end here (Australia). Eg, here's a price list for Internode: http://www.internode.on.net/residential/broadband/adsl/easy_.... The base plan is 30Gb/month for $40, the high end is 1Tb/month for $130.

iiNet's base plan is 20Gb/month for $30: http://www.iinet.net.au/broadband/plans.html

Telstra has a 2GB/month plan for $10, but that is really just there so they can price gouge people who don't know better: http://go.bigpond.com/broadband/?ref=Net-Head-Int-Plans-Broa...

I don't know what lets T-Mobile sell 3Gb as "unlimted", but they wouldn't be allowed to call it that here.

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Re:How broadband pay-per-use will change web apps by semanticist on Sunday December 12, 2010 @08:51PM (#1998879)

Here's the ISP I use:

http://adsl24.co.uk/broadband/

Look at their non-LLU packages, 30GB/month is ~£20/month. I think I'm paying for 60GB.

It's only the really huge mass-market ISPs that are offering £5-10/month packages with 1-3GB of data transfer. Once you get away from BT Broadband, Sky, and the like, you can get some decent deals.

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Re:How broadband pay-per-use will change web apps by eftpotrm on Sunday December 12, 2010 @06:59PM (#1998562)

Having recently been researching this, while I agree that there's a blatant truth in advertising problem there, T-Mobile do seem rather better than average. If I go over the quota on O2 (for example), I get a bill. If I go over quota on T-Mobile, I get my speed cut down below a level where I can use multimedia services.

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