jenssenfucker

Has iiNet undertaken a feasibility analysis of the various forms of blocking & monitoring and regimes mooted by ALP and LNP governments? If so, what position does iiNet take on each form? Or does iiNet simply take the ideological position that it should not be the responsibility of ISP's to perform this kind of study?

Here here! I think that certain ISP's low-priced "unlimited" bundles (that are really nothing of the sort) are distorting the marketplace of ideas.

Flexible, reasonably priced plans with shaping-after-quota-exhausted + flexible mid-period plan changes + data blocks on demand are the way to go. Sooo many people that I talk to on "unlimited" plans end up only using 200-300GB.

Content producers aren't interested in content reach if it doesn't make them an extra direct sale. They're interested in selling the product as many times as possible. That's why there's all sorts of geo-locked content under license on youtube (i.e: music and some movies).

True about YouTube's success, and yet the paradox is that they're now moving all music videos to a new ad revenue and licensing model.

In addition to whatever Steve might say, please head to /r/NBN if you've got questions about NBN rollout, the FTTN trial, etc.

What you're complaining about is really just the unit price of data in the plan. ISPs structure their plans based on costs and likely uptake of their plan portfolio. They expect a variety of customer types to sign up with some designed distribution.

If it's sold as "any time", the presumption is that the bulk of the data will be used in peak times.

If it's sold explicity, obviously as X peak + X*K offpeak... the ISP is just communicating to you that it has lots of bandwidth sitting unutilised in that off-peak part of the day (so is effectively free to them to sell more of it) and is trying to encourage you to use it then rather than in the peak times.

I'm not particularly sold on the X peak + X offpeak sort of plans. It's a bit of a mixed message if you ask me.

"Unlimited" plans (assuming they actually are) just make the assumption that "somehow" all the customer's combined won't use more than the bandwidth available at the same time... which is basically impossible to guarantee. Plus they attract the "wrong kind" of customer by doing it :-)