Re: Telecom kills Bigtime plan
On 24 May 2010 16:12, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote: I just got sent the following email from Telecom: we're sorry that we cannot continue to provide a plan with no monthly data allowance. Seems to me that we (as consumers) would have to pay a early contract termination fee if we backed out of the contract. I read one post who said there telecom wouldn't charge us a ECT fee if we leave telecom... (how kind of them) Yet seeing as they are the ones pulling the plug early, my contract isn't up, they should be on the hook for the same fee they would have charged us. sV
Re: Telecom kills Bigtime plan
Good luck taking that one to any court :) even better if you won but then the legal fees (if you got a lawyer in) might make it not worth while. Dave. - Original Message Follows - On 24 May 2010 16:12, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote: I just got sent the following email from Telecom: we're sorry that we cannot continue to provide a plan with no monthly data allowance. Seems to me that we (as consumers) would have to pay a early contract termination fee if we backed out of the contract. I read one post who said there telecom wouldn't charge us a ECT fee if we leave telecom... (how kind of them) Yet seeing as they are the ones pulling the plug early, my contract isn't up, they should be on the hook for the same fee they would have charged us. sV
Fwd: [nznog] NZRS asks for help testing a DNS feature
NZRS are testing the ability of your DNS to work with names in māori.nz (i.e. spelt correctly with the macron on the a) -- please read the message below visit http://www.te-reo.maori.dns.net.nz to enable them to test. -- Forwarded message -- From: Sebastian Castro sebast...@nzrs.net.nz Date: Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:49 PM Subject: [nznog] NZRS asks for help testing a DNS feature To: nznog nz...@list.waikato.ac.nz Greetings NZNOG Community: Within the context of the IDN Project, that adds five new characters (the macronised vowels) to the set of characters valid for .nz domain name registration, a new SLD will be created: māori.nz All existing and future names registered under .maori.nz will be duplicated in the DNS to be available under .māori.nz as well. We will use a DNS record called a DNAME to implement this functionality. Although the DNAME record has been standard for more than 10 years, we want to make sure domains under māori.nz will work properly. To do so, we have prepared a test page that will let us find out the level of DNAME support among cache resolvers. Please visit http://www.te-reo.maori.dns.net.nz to help us with the testing process. We will collect visits to the page and DNS queries for particular names and correlate them to identify the number of resolvers supporting the DNAME record. Feel free to share this link with anybody, including other suitable mailing lists. If you find any issue, have comments or suggestions, please let us know. Cheers -- Sebastian Castro DNS Specialist .nz Registry Services (New Zealand Domain Name Registry Limited) desk: +64 4 495 2337 mobile: +64 21 400535 ___ NZNOG mailing list nz...@list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/nznog
Re: Telecom kills Bigtime plan
So, on one hand they have all this infrastructure, and all these massive profits; on the other hand they cannot update their own infrastructure to keep their customers happy and unbothered. So where did all those profits go? They've just confirmed my belief that they were never plowed back into maintaining and developing the infrastructure. Far from being too big to fail, I'd say they're too big to succeed. Wesley Parish On Mon, 24 May 2010, ke...@katipo.net.nz wrote: I just got sent the following email from Telecom: Update from Telecom Important news about the Big Time Broadband plan Hi Kerry You may have heard that the Big Time Broadband plan is coming to an end. The decision was not made lightly and we're sorry that we cannot continue to provide a plan with no monthly data allowance. However, the ongoing traffic management challenges involved with maintaining an innovative plan like Big Time have now made it unsustainable. To minimise the inconvenience, all Big Time customers will be recommended suitable broadband plans based on their recent broadband usage. We'll be sending a letter in the coming weeks setting out your options, including what you need to do if you choose to disconnect your broadband. Yours sincerely Ralph Brayham Director of Home Telecom On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:59 AM, Craig Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nz wrote: True flat-rate starts at $1k/month. Â There will not be a real domestic all-you-can-eat connection for double-digits/month. That may be true in most of NZ, and it's probably related to the physical infrastructure monopolies. But down here in Dunedin I'm connected to WIC via wireless; flat-rate 1Mbps for $75/month. I don't get things so fast, but I don't have to keep track of how much data I'm using. So it can be done, all you need is an ISP run by someone who cares about what the Internet really is ... -jim -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
