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[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Jan writes,

> e.g. Telstra prepaid wireless is $140 for 8Gb. Internode home wired 
> service, not phone bundled, is $50 for 50Gb. Major pricing difference.
> TPG is 500GB for $50, even better!

Optus prepaid wireless data is $130 for 17.5Gb if paid online. The latency
with it for Optus Melbourne is usually 120ms with 5 Mbps down & 1.5Mbps up

> There is obviously the question of availability in regional areas, which
> was the start of this thread, so things will vary in those environments.
> But for those who can get a wired service, it makes much more sense to
> do that and get a mobile service only if you need to be mobile for things
> like smart phones and possibly tablets.


We need to be wireless, here in country Vic. Wireless for everything. Our
fixed underground phone line was laid 40 years ago. It can't even provide
a reliable POTS phone line, (too much static), let alone any ADSL flavour.

Several times Telstra sent out service crews. They taped another plastic
bottle (a coke bottle the last time) around all of the joins in the coms 
pit, again with no differences. We've had to abandon fixed line services.
There will never be optics for this small country town. Roll on wireless.

Cheers,
Stephen


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