According to a couple of tipsters and some users on the Whirlpool forums, Foxtel on Xbox is coming up as unmetered content for BigPond users. This is a huge win.
Foxtel on Xbox is a great idea, but with the high quality stream chewing through about 800MB in an hour, it can prove to be costly to your data allowance. It makes sense that BigPond would be the first to unmeter this content, given their partial ownership of Foxtel and the fact that they already include Foxtel’s PC based download service as unmetered content.
We’ve contacted BigPond to try and get official confirmation about the unmetered status of Foxtel on Xbox, and will let you know when they get back to us. In the meantime, I might start paying closer attention to BigPond’s broadband plans now…
[Thanks Ben!]
Sean
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 1:37 PMThis is making me want to bring the XBox back out of the cupboard and plug it all in again.
Stinky
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 2:24 PMI wouldn’t use Bigpond if you paid me.
fresh
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 3:29 PMyour loss
Frank
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 3:59 PMSo, no evidence to back up this comment? i mean…why not? I have had no issues with them, i get LOTS of unmetered content and it is (now) a good price :)
Camerooni
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 2:32 PMThis is what is wrong with Australia’s internet.. the walled garden approach of unmetered content – all thanks to telstra.. this is what people overseas are starting to be concerned about.. the possibility that the internet won’t be neutral – priority in traffic and/or bandwidth based on who your isp is and what deals they make with the major content players at the expense of everyone else.
We should not be asking for more unmetred content.. but higher download caps.. and not allow the distributor of the content to also own the content – see telstra and it’s bigpond walled garden approach to digital services and downloads.. “oh you could download games from another service but we only give you 2 gig.. why don’t you download unmetered from us *wink wink.. rubs hands with money*”..
if bigpond didn’t have a vested interest in attempting to limit their customer base to their content they’d have much larger download caps by now because they’d be competing solely on how good of a service they provide and their value of money..
Frank
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 4:00 PMare you going to mention the Optus Zoo or iiNet’s unmetered content here or just Telstra bash?
Travis New
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 5:47 PMIn a simple nutshell ISPs buy bandwidth then divy it up and required by their plans and users. Plans have nothing to do with Telstra. And other thing, ISPs actually get quite cheap rental of Telstra lines which is why they don’t bother building their own. Further more they could build their own exchanges and service you much more but THEY choose NOT to.
Don’t bag Telstra when they’re not holding the internet back. It is money. Pure and simple money. Why give more unmetered/bandwidth when they don’t have to? huh why bother.
Toranova
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 6:29 AMThat is not true. They rent off Telstra because it is too expensive to install there own. Apprently ADSL1 lines are hella expensive to rent off Telstra, hence the crappy download rates ISPs offer to ADSL1 users. ADSL2 plans are more the value that say $50 costs an ISP.
Andrew Mack
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 2:46 PMmine is coming up as unmetered and has from day 1!
Eamon
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 4:00 PMTPG unlimited… problem solved?
Greg
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 4:46 PMTPG quality vs. Telstra quality – No contest, Telstra will win every time (in terms of line speed, number of re-transmits, latency etc – even if TPG uses Telstra’s lines, the TPG equipment in the exchange is just not the same)
Alan Kwai
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 5:17 PMEven the iiNet terabyte plans should be good enough for most people. I know that’s certainly the case for me.
ohai
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 5:58 PMUnmetered – only until they realize that they could be triple-dipping into your pockets!
moloko
Wednesday, November 24, 2010 at 1:16 AMTelstra aren’t very good at the internet providings
Josh
Monday, November 29, 2010 at 12:33 PMI just checked after reading this, and all unmetered! :D Going to be watching alot more of it now.