How much is acceptable to pay for internet access?
If you are going to charge how do you decide the price?
In New Zealand you can have "Free" internet use, both fixed line and wireless, at the local libraries and in some high streets / city centres.
Both run by local government.
What I have found is very annoying.
Hotels we have been in have free Wifi internet access.
2 out of all the camp-sites we been in so far have been free.
Most use a third party wireless internet provider and charge what is a reasonable rate of $10 for 24 hours ranging from 500mb to 1000mb.
Smaller amount of time you want, the higher the cost, as follows:-
- $1 = 10 minutes
- $2 = 20 minutes
Note an English guy in front of us on Tuesday 27th September bought £20 worth of internet time for his 4 kids, at the above rate.
The worst so far, for cost is a holiday camp close to Dunedin, that charged $18 for 4 hours.
I did not use the internet at this camp!!!!!!
The best was free internet at a camp close to Christchurch, this I had and if I used up the 1000mb he would increase it.
So should companies charge? when you, if you look, can get free internet access.
Its easy money clear profit.
If we the customer start to complain or not use the expensive places then hopefully the price will fall.
What do you say?
What do you say?
Top rant. Welcome to travelling and living somewhere else. Imagine this. In Indonesia Free wifi is almost a given thing everywhere in the large cities, restaurants etc. In England you have to sign up/pay/login etc and then find out how expensive it is.I thought Dunedin was great for internet as it had a McEmail cafe in Mcdonalds. But then I did drink a lot of tooheys....
ReplyDeleteHi Luke in your home town of Frome they have free internet in the library, Yes nearly all the Mc Cafe's have email, only issue is there band with slows up, when 20+ users are on line
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