• 4G Wireless Home Broadband pricing

    From BungleBob@21:1/5 to All on Thu Jul 29 15:47:07 2021
    4G Wireless Home Broadband

    Unless I'm missing something (easily done on the extremely messy
    webpages all ISP have for their plans!), Spark's Unplan stupidly
    over-priced:

    $65 for up to 60GB
    $75 for up to 120GB
    $85 for over 120GB

    Technically it is unlimited (due to automatically rolling-up a tier
    depending on how much data you use each month), so it might work out
    cheaper than buying a new block of data in other companies plans, but
    you can get far more data for far less cost elsewhere anyway.


    Vodafone has better deals:

    $40 for up to 60GB
    $55 for up to 300GB
    $65 for unlimited (within "fair use")

    There's also a 4G/5G option for $55, but I can't see if there's any data cap. (I also can't work out why my 300GB connection, which they
    automatically upgraded from an older more expensive 120GB plan, is
    costing me $65 per month!)


    Even Spark's own sister company Skinny has better deals:

    $45 for up to 60GB
    $55 for up to 120GB
    $60 for unlimited




    * All prices are from their websites for 4G wireless home broadband
    without having a mobile phone plan with the same company and doesn't
    include any free sign-up freebie offers.

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  • From Gordon@21:1/5 to BungleBob on Thu Jul 29 04:16:32 2021
    On 2021-07-29, BungleBob <bunglebob@thejungle.com> wrote:

    4G Wireless Home Broadband

    Unless I'm missing something (easily done on the extremely messy
    webpages all ISP have for their plans!), Spark's Unplan stupidly
    over-priced:

    $65 for up to 60GB
    $75 for up to 120GB
    $85 for over 120GB

    Technically it is unlimited (due to automatically rolling-up a tier
    depending on how much data you use each month), so it might work out
    cheaper than buying a new block of data in other companies plans, but
    you can get far more data for far less cost elsewhere anyway.


    Vodafone has better deals:

    $40 for up to 60GB
    $55 for up to 300GB
    $65 for unlimited (within "fair use")

    There's also a 4G/5G option for $55, but I can't see if there's any data cap. (I also can't work out why my 300GB connection, which they
    automatically upgraded from an older more expensive 120GB plan, is
    costing me $65 per month!)


    Even Spark's own sister company Skinny has better deals:

    $45 for up to 60GB
    $55 for up to 120GB
    $60 for unlimited




    * All prices are from their websites for 4G wireless home broadband
    without having a mobile phone plan with the same company and doesn't
    include any free sign-up freebie offers.

    So what is your question/request?

    Skinny is Spark with sensible(lower) prices and no doubt some service cuts.

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  • From BungleBob@21:1/5 to Gordon on Thu Jul 29 16:23:21 2021
    On 2021-07-29 04:16:32 +0000, Gordon said:

    On 2021-07-29, BungleBob <bunglebob@thejungle.com> wrote:

    4G Wireless Home Broadband

    Unless I'm missing something (easily done on the extremely messy
    webpages all ISP have for their plans!), Spark's Unplan stupidly
    over-priced:

    $65 for up to 60GB
    $75 for up to 120GB
    $85 for over 120GB

    Technically it is unlimited (due to automatically rolling-up a tier
    depending on how much data you use each month), so it might work out
    cheaper than buying a new block of data in other companies plans, but
    you can get far more data for far less cost elsewhere anyway.


    Vodafone has better deals:

    $40 for up to 60GB
    $55 for up to 300GB
    $65 for unlimited (within "fair use")

    There's also a 4G/5G option for $55, but I can't see if there's any data cap.
    (I also can't work out why my 300GB connection, which they
    automatically upgraded from an older more expensive 120GB plan, is
    costing me $65 per month!)


    Even Spark's own sister company Skinny has better deals:

    $45 for up to 60GB
    $55 for up to 120GB
    $60 for unlimited




    * All prices are from their websites for 4G wireless home broadband
    without having a mobile phone plan with the same company and doesn't
    include any free sign-up freebie offers.

    So what is your question/request?

    Skinny is Spark with sensible(lower) prices and no doubt some service cuts.

    The question would be "Why the hell is anyone using Spark 4G Wireless
    Home Broadband"?? Or "You at Spark needs to pull their finger out and
    re-do the pricing??"

    Spark (and Vodafone too) is trying to push 4G/5G wireless home
    broadband on customers so the company can side-step Chorus charges, but
    at those prices nobody should be silly enough to use Spark.

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