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  From: Nigel Moore <nigel@nlc.net.au>
  To  : Jason Tan <jason@rebel.rebel.net.au>
  Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 17:57:54 +1000 (EST)

Re: FW: Big Pond Direct ADSL Launch (fwd)

While on the subject, I was wondering if IDA do offer ADSL in any other
poarts of Austraklia rather than SA, as I would be very interested in
getting it installed in our office at those rates.

Kind Regards,

Nigel





On Tue, 29 May 2001, Jason Tan wrote:

> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Michael Kratz wrote:
> 
> > Whoa your not wrong Simon,
> > 
> >         Speed        Per month  Direct/Cache
> > Telstra 256/64k      $249.00    1414MB/1886MB
> > IPA     1500/256k    $245           1500MB
> > 
> > Um yes, if you go with telstra you are crazy!!!! for a few dollars LESS with 
> > IPA you get a heluva lot more speed and just a little bit more megs or a 
> > little less depending on whether you use telstras proxy cache... and you get 
> > a lot better customer service from IPA than you will ever get from telstra 
> > within the next 20 million years...
> > 
> > Telstra can go and shove their ADSL... their pricing is absolutely stupid!!! 
> > Wonder how long it will be before they actually realise this, mind you by 
> > that time, it will be too late, IPA, et al. will have all the customers by 
> > then.
> > 
> > (note this is not a plug or advert, just a comparison to show how stupid 
> > telstra is!!!)
> 
> I assume Telstra's coverage is greater than IPAs on a ntional basis, so
> the option to use IPA may nto be their for all users.
> 
> Aslo I suspect for some comapnies who ahvea telsta rep and like dealing
> with one person for everything(regardless of how frustratign that is in
> reality) that thee is a certain comfort level with telstra.
> 
> perosnally I agree though isn SA, if you wnat dsl tht will let you run a
> server/have static IPs, IPA appears to be the way to go.
> 
> jason
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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