[LINK] Net charges

[Adam Todd]

At 03:28 03/03/2008, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>Adrian writes,
>
>"My Year 9 girls uploaded the digital movies they made as part of ICT
>onto their personal blogs, and in 8 mins, one of the girls had spent $18.

Telstra?

>I won't tell you how much internet money I have used as a teacher in 3
>weeks. Anyway we have revised our plans to allow greater download and will

But they were uploading!!!  Downloads won't be affected.

>monitor our usage closely. This is one downside to using web2.0 to its'
>potential in the classroom." (end-quote)

What is web2?

Did I miss something.

>Uploading a movie to a blog site is a basic web2 activity.

Ok, so when I uploaded my 3 min film, all 300MB of it, to Hollywood 
from the back of Burke via a mobile phone, and it cost me nothing 
more than my monthly plan ...  :)

Sounds like people need to really review their providers.

>But parents must pay EIGHTEEN DOLLARS each time? It's obviously outrageous.

I pay $15 a month :)  And I use a mobile phone, so it works with my 
laptop wherever I am.

>Aussie schools contract with ISPs (eg Netspace etc) for their net pipe,
>and pay enormous bills. Many (all?) schools pass these costs on to the
>parents in the form of individual student pre-paid access accounts. No
>money, no net. The education revolution really needs to start at net costs.

Yes but money makes the world go in at least one direction.

And if parents don't pay for it, the mortgage, the car loans, the 
child care and health insurance - who will?

>And, good luck Roger. My tiny-try-hard home broadband provider, OneWire,
>went belly-up last month, and are flickpassing us on to a Westnet offer
>with free router.

Wesnet is pretty good, they are very responsive, but remains to see 
if they can maintain their good customer service as they get bigger.

>So i dont think middle-order net people are makng heaps
>it's simply Australia's outrageous wholesale charges.

Its not going to change whilst people pay for it.
Watch how quickly things change if everyone too up 3 Mobile Broadband :)

Actually that would be bad, cause then 3's network woudl clog.