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By: Young PR » Blog Archive » Big Blog Buggering Around

Young PR » Blog Archive » Big Blog Buggering Around — Fri, 03 Mar 2006 05:58:52 +0000

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By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 21:09:07 +0000

I have a 24MB ADSL here in Tokyo. 100MB fibre lines are also available for not much more in price. I can only laugh when I see restrictions on the monthly download limits in Australia.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 16:30:25 +0000

Couple of things:
Stefan, as with everything to do with Telstra they are so late to the party its a joke

Mike,
it’s not the Governments role to make it cheaper, we’ve got to either take the infrastructure away from Telstra (ie split it into wholesale and retail, fully privatise the retail arm and make it compete like everyone else) or make it easier for competitors to get access in…and some are already, I cant get it where I am but you can get 8mb broadband in Perth through iinet for less that the cost of 512kps on Bigpong.

Pete
couldn’t agree more, funny that every other country in the world regards “broadband” as being 4-5mps +, yet Telstra calls in 256k! The download limits are also a joke, any where else in the world this wouldn’t be happening, for some reason there is a cosy acceptance in the industry in Australia to charge these fees, and yet its not repeated overseas. Ripe for an ACCC investigation in my books.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:35:41 +0000

Again, Telstra is years late to the party.

That 10mb limit is nearly as archaic as their broadband plans.

[rant]
10gb is hardly UNLIMITED! – and 512/128 can hardly be called high-speed internet.
ugh.
[/rant]

The only reason they’re interested in this is for the upsell on content being delivered by SMS/MMS to the blogs.

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 12:36:20 +0000

Telstra is so far behind and slow moving compared to companies like Google. We shouldn’t compare, but it is hard not to. I wish the Australian gov would move to make broadband cheaper in Australia, otherwise Australia will fall further behind. People like Darren show that Australians can become international successes. Perhaps if internet was more widespread, we could see more Aussies out there.

By: Stefan Juhl

Stefan Juhl — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 10:38:13 +0000

Well, I don’t know about the company or how it is with telecommunication companies in Australia, but I think this is a really smart move by them. If they can get it up and running and have a decent amount of their customers using this.

I don’t doubt that the features that will be promoted the most is services like “MMS photos and SMS comments direct from your mobile phone to your blog”. That’s an obvious way to have their customers use those mobile services more, and thereby make Telstra increase their revenue.

And if they get it going I guess that the 10mb limit will be changed, since they would earn more money the more content people post from their mobile phones.

Do any of you know if there are other tele-companies providing services like this already?

By: Mathew Patterson

Mathew Patterson — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 08:18:01 +0000

I’m pretty sure it is custom development, I’ve had some contact with some of the people involved.

By: Duncan

Duncan — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 07:40:12 +0000

I saw this earlier over at Trevor Cook’s blog. Anyone have any idea as to what they are running behind the scenes? it looked a bit like a custom job to me??

By: mark

mark — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 06:19:13 +0000

Yes, I hate it once a company promotes something big, makes you want to signup right away, but they don’t want to accept signups then. Google does that a lot, and it makes me so mad! :(

Anyways, I guess this services is for those who just want a very basic blog due to this restriction:

“Up to 10MB free web space with BigPond membership”.