I'll point out firstly they're not billing national traffic as international, they're billing all traffic at the same rate. No difference exists for full rate JetStream.
Its supposed to be $90ish for 1000Mb of traffic over your line. If you put more than that through, then you'll be charged more. Sounds to me like you're putting more like 1500Mb through the line. And to Dans reponse, no matter what ISP you are connected with for full rate jetstream Telecom take care of the traffic billing... and they bill you for everything that goes through the line, all traffic, no matter what they dont differentiate. From what I gather they dont even look at packets to see where they've come from or are going to, they just bill you for the size of that packet. And as I pointed out last time, its not a rip off. It is one of the cheaper high speed lines available to home users, compare prices with simalar connections and you'll soon see what I mean. I'd also like to know how you see the price of jetstream tripling? There never has been a international/national differential as far as I was aware with Jetstream. JetStart with xtra received a international cap after p2p filesharing started to bog xtra's network down. Some ISPs have always had traffic limits, and now some of them have stopped counting national traffic in those limits. Lastly I wouldn't say this is extortion. If cheaper connections exist, then prices will come down. This happened to Xtra when they could no longer explain to their customers how competing smaller ISPs were able to provide the flat rate access for $5-$15 less than Xtra could. Sascha On Tue, 2002-08-20 at 11:04, Warwick wrote: > I have an issue with this as well. > I have been lax at tracking the bills but recieved summary today. > Since April the smallest monthly charge is 150 dollars and the > largest 220. It is supposed to be 65 + line rental (90 ish). > > Now I am fair pissed - this is a rip off on a grand scale. > > Telecom billing national traffic as international is a neat > explanation - fits the circumstances perfectly. > > TAking my case as example, how much profit do you imagine the new > bandwidth rules generated ? Effectively the price of jetstream is > tripled. > > I sometimes wonder if the generation above us who actually paid for > and installed the copper loops had any idea that it would be sold and > then rented back to the population at such extortionate prices. >
