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Optus prepaid broadband data robbery
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Whatever happened to charging us for the data we use?
Optus has launched a new prepaid option for its wireless broadband service, but with the unusual proviso that the data used will be charged in 10MB increments.
This means that if you log on and check your email then immediately log off you will have 10MB deducted from your allocation regardless of the fact you will have downloaded significantly less than this amount.
Confusingly, Optus will charge the first 30MB used each day at 10MB against your remaining data allocation. Thereafter all data used is charged in 10MB blocks.
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Another money making venture I think
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To right I could hardly believe what I was reading when I spotted this. How DO they get away with it
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Another great Aussie telco rip-off? I cease to be amazed…
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I’m pretty sure, when devising a new product, the telco thinking goes like this:
It should sound great in the advert
It should turn out to be much less useful and/or much more expensive than it sounds
Make it as confusing as possible to prevent it being compared against other offerings
Do not provide a simple detailed explanation of the plan in one place. For bonus points get call centre staff confused and offering different interpretations of it.
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Yes, that’s the way so many goods and services are operating ,especially these days,and the older we are,as in being used to technology my generation, those born around the turn of the decades the 1950’s and’60’s are not as savvy as those born some 3 decades later. Hence the saying, “So simple even an adult can operate it!”
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