Trying to decipher Optus mobile broadband pricing

[Ext User(googlegroups@sensation.net.au)]

From the Optus small and medium business brochure:

"Pay as you go at 1.5c/KB capped at $9.90 for up to 5MB; after that
charged at 0.30/KB."

I understand the first bit - if you download between 550KB and 5MB
you'll pay $9.90 - but above that is the excess KB fee in cents, or
dollars? Using either unit the excess fee is quite significantly
different to the base fee... $0.30 per KB is 20 times the base price,
0.3c per KB is a fifth of the base price.

Just to muddy things further, the "data included" plans show the
excess in *MB* rather than KB, and the price starts at $0.30/MB which
leads me to wonder whether the PAYG data excess is actually $0.30 per
*megabyte*

Does anyone know for sure?

[Ext User(thegoons)]

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<googlegroups@sensation.net.au> wrote in message
news:40c7acdf-0838-478a-aa8f-7a92a38c93dd@c23g2000hsa.googlegroups.com...
> From the Optus small and medium business brochure:
>
> "Pay as you go at 1.5c/KB capped at $9.90 for up to 5MB; after that
> charged at 0.30/KB."
>
> I understand the first bit - if you download between 550KB and 5MB
> you'll pay $9.90 - but above that is the excess KB fee in cents, or
> dollars? Using either unit the excess fee is quite significantly
> different to the base fee... $0.30 per KB is 20 times the base price,
> 0.3c per KB is a fifth of the base price.
>
> Just to muddy things further, the "data included" plans show the
> excess in *MB* rather than KB, and the price starts at $0.30/MB which
> leads me to wonder whether the PAYG data excess is actually $0.30 per
> *megabyte*
>
> Does anyone know for sure?



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