That's certainly what is happening at Telstra BPA. The immoral part is that they actually marketed the service this way i.e. as a data network. Sales representatives were very fond of promoting the free services that enthusiastic users were offering, right down to the expert free support and solutions users were providing to each other. By its very nature, many of the early adopters were power users.
The new pricing policies are an abrupt about-face designed to alienate the early adopters. I'm sure that makes corporate sense to bean-counters, but there are much better ways to achieve the same ends e.g. differential tariffs, usage caps. As things stand now, BPA has locked many users into 12 and 18-month contracts. If they don't accept the new price policies, they are still obliged to pay out their contracts. That is completely unethical.
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That's certainly what is happening at Telstra BPA. The immoral part is that they actually marketed the service this way i.e. as a data network. Sales representatives were very fond of promoting the free services that enthusiastic users were offering, right down to the expert free support and solutions users were providing to each other. By its very nature, many of the early adopters were power users.
The new pricing policies are an abrupt about-face designed to alienate the early adopters. I'm sure that makes corporate sense to bean-counters, but there are much better ways to achieve the same ends e.g. differential tariffs, usage caps. As things stand now, BPA has locked many users into 12 and 18-month contracts. If they don't accept the new price policies, they are still obliged to pay out their contracts. That is completely unethical.