Lose Your (Broadband) Virginity In The Bush…
Well, you might not lose it, but you might learn some things. Virgin Broadband are expanding their broadband offerings into the “bush” and by “bush” we mean “Wollongong, Newcastle and Ballarat”. Sure it’s a stretch — we know — but it made for a much more exciting headline.
Both Virgin’s Broadband at home and Mobile Broadband offerings are available in these regional capitals. For those unaware, both use Virgin’s (and therefore Optus’) 3G network to connect to the we. The home broadband solution also incorporates a home phone number, without line rental or excessive charges, and a wireless router.
It’s an awesome deal if you can get it and you aren’t a gigabyte hungry power user. The extra coverage is also great for mobile broadband users who travel to these mystic cities of alternative delights cities frequently.
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Did you read the fine print ? “Fair Usage Policy” applies. Fair Usages means, if you exceed 2 GB PER MONTH, you will be shaped to 64k ! No joke. 2 GB. Per Month. On a “Broadband” connection. For 60 bucks. But hey – they give you a VOIP number for free ! Wait .. aren’t there a million billion providers which give away SIP DID’s ?
What – Oh dear Lord – is a broadband connection worth, if I get capped after 2 GB ? So I can reach my cap in a view hours instead of days ?
This is what’s wrong with the Australian Telecom Industry. Shame on you !
Quite the mystic cities of delight… as a proud Gong’er (or Gong’ite – buggered it I know what we’re supposed to be) this is great news… considering the rates charged by Telstra for a “mobile” internet connection, this sort of thing looks great to power up a laptop like mine that spends half its time in Wgong and the other half in capital cities…
“are expanding”, “are available”… Which is it?
I’m myself a Virgin Mobile user who lives in Ballarat and uses a 3G compatible phone (N95) and I certainly don’t have 3G available to me yet. Was there anymore information from your source, such as a time frame because the plans to expand 3G to these areas have been around since January 2007.
well lets face it all isp’s are a rip off so this one’s not doing anything youre not acustom to none give reliable service and blame telstra for the crap lines and they are but wirless hey come on how does that use wires or have we missed something i tried to do a coverage search and got zilch so who covers Broken Hill / alice springs / katherin /mount Isa and the likes or even in between these areas or are they religated to the dream time or someplace somebody may live in for god knows what reason come on you money grubbing communications prats get off your bums and cater for all the hard working folks out there the backbone of this land of plenty miners farmers and the like give them a break ,that the City wallers take for granted give em decent communication not stale prommises like telstra has for 30 yrs and the gov for as long
cheers terry