Many ISPs are offering big new deals, but it is not all as it seems.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum...?t=1528475&p=1
In summary:
- Telstra (Bigpond) are selling ADSL services retail at a price lower than the wholesale cost to the industry in contravention of the trade practices act.
- Telstra’s anti-competitive methods are described as including:
- Untenably high wholesale transmission pricing.
- Capped exchanges.
- Delays for approval to access exchanges to install DSLAMs.
- The lack of an LSS to ULLS migration process.
- Telstra BigPond’s refusal to join the Telstra LSS Churn process.
- RIM and pair gain constraints.
- Telstra not meeting connection appointments.
- Truck rolls for IULL vs VULL connections rather than reusing existing pairs still jumpered from previous services.
- Telstra’s use of the court system, the access dispute process and the ACCC’s undertaking process to create fear, uncertainty and delay.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/telstra-pric...-339304519.htm
Bottom line Telstra are having to face up to the ACCC again, and Internode and iiNet are leading the charge.
All I can say is bring on the NBN!
In the mean time check with your ISP about plan changes because you can get a lot more for the same or less money!
(I just went from 50GB/M to 150GB/M for the same price)