Terabytes seem all the rage these days. First iiNet, then iPrimus, and now TPG – by way of the Whirlpool forums – have announced 1TB data plans for ADSL2+ connections. Who’s excited?
The TPG plan announced on Whirlpool is for a $70 plan including 1TB of data, 500GB peak and 500GB off-peak, with home phone line rental, number porting, unlimited free local calls and 6 or 18 month contract options. The price offered is $70, and the plans should be available from September 1.
As Gus over at Lifehacker points out, it’s only available in limited TPG coverage areas, which kind of sucks for most potential customers, while commenters on Whirlpool are a litle miffed that current TPG customers aren’t able to upgrade to the plans straight away – these are for new customers apparently.
Still, it’s nice to see the issue of data becoming a real non-issue, with both high allowance and unlimited plans in the market now.
[Whirlpool via Lifehacker]
moloko
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 10:42 AMThey need to pull their fingers out of their holes with the limited coverage area crap. Just service Sydney if your going to do this and leave the rest of the country for the real ISP’s.
Frosty
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 11:14 AMYeah it’s quite unfair that I have been a TPG customer for nearly 3 years and I can’t even upgrade to the unlimited plans or the plans with the bundled phone as they are for NEW CUSTOMERS only. I personally can’t see what the problem is?
Kif
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 11:59 AMErr, businesses generally offer these sorts of deals at cost or below prices to get new customers. They don’t make money until they KEEP them. They already have you.
nicky
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 1:58 PMi’ve also been a customer for 3 or 4 years and i was able to get on their unlimited plan
Micky
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 11:23 AMI would be excited if we weren’t on twisted pair gain system, as I cant get adsl 2+, so I’m stuck with cable or wireless both overly priced with minuscule bandwidth
Will
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 12:17 PMI don’t get this. My unlimited plan from tpg is 75 bucks. Not much difference.
Dropkick
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 3:39 PMMaybe it’s time they introduced cheaper plans rather than giving you more nothing. Do people really download that much stuff? You might get excited when it’s first switched on but I’d bet your download rate drops off dramatically after a month or so.
Nick Broughall
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 3:47 PMI know that right now the only reason I don’t watch HD movie streams via Zune Video marketplace is because a single HD movie is about 8GB, or roughly a quarter of my monthly allowance. Not saying 1TB isn’t overkill, but at least there’s no need to worry about your downloading habits.
Nat
Friday, August 20, 2010 at 9:28 PMI’d settle for better lower limit plans.
Curreently, there seems to be a big drop in usage allowance for the lower limit plans which is not matched by only slightly lower prices.
Louis
Sunday, August 22, 2010 at 9:21 AMTPG have a strange concept of peak and offpeak. Peak is 19 hours of the day and offpeak is 5 hours of the day.
So you will consume your peak quota four times as fast as you offpeak.
This is per theit 150/350 (half terrabyte) plan. Would anyone be able to use 350Gb a month in 5 hours a day for a month?
My current ISP has 12 hour peak and off peak though much less of a quota.
Bob
Saturday, September 4, 2010 at 11:51 PMYou know Louis makes a good point. The top speed I get is 450kb/s. 5hrs x 30 days = 150hrs. Based on that I would be able to download 243gb. Still a great amount but on principle if I’m paying money for 350gb offpeak then I want to have the Ability to download 350gb offpeak.