Now, Fiji’s ISP market has pretty much been dominated by Connect and their good ol’ buddies Telecom. Unwired came along and has tried to revitalise the market, but their bandwidth isn’t as fat as they’d like it to be.

Behold, the entrance of a new player…Kidanet! Which is owned by none other then Fintel. Who are in the same circle as…Connect/Telecom. Don’t know how that quite works out…two competing companies under one umbrella company. Wish I hadn’t skipped Economics back in high school…

These guys would have slipped under my radar if it wasn’t for the fact that their adverts basically screamed three magic words:

No. Download. Cap.

At first I was like…bull. No chance in hell is an ISP going to put that kind of advert without that little niggly fine print.

A quick check at their website reveals that yes, they do have a freaken no download cap no limit package! That was almost too good to be true.

Oh well. A good friend of mine once told me that “If it’s too good to be true, it usually is.” And in this case…it was

At the bottom of the page was a link called “Acceptable Use Policy”. What the hell was that? The link was basically self explanatory…

Now, I know I’ve ranted on about how Connect basically provided for pirates and sucked when it came to bandwidth provision but this is a new low.

I mean when Connect says “Go above your download limit and we will severely cut down your Internet speed to 56k!!….but you can still surf” thats fine. That I can deal with.

But when Fintel says “We have no download limit mate! Download away! Please! But uhhh…should ever the case arise that you are clogging up our lines with your multiple downloads of Grey’s Anatomy season 1 as well as the latest pr0n, then we will bring the mighty hammer of corporate doom down on your ass via a nasty sounding letter. And thats not all. If, by some twist of fate, you happen to be in Lautoka visiting your maintenance girl, and miss the letter…then you can kiss your Vivid subscription goodbye.”

Now that, I’m not cool with. Not the vivid subscription. Just the whole “its up to us when you step over the line, you won’t know it, but when it happens…we’ll let you know” thing. I don’t know, I’m the type of person who likes to make sure that everything is laid out in black and white before I sign my life away.

By now you’ve probably figured out that I ain’t jumping on the Kidanet bandwagon. Ah well. If any of you have a better picture to paint of Kidanet and their infamous “Acceptable Use Policy”, then let us know

PS: I was browsing their page where they were offering ZOMG A FREE EPISODE OF THE FORCE!!!!1!1! -_- The thing I don’t get is…apparently the website spell checker was sick on the day that the body text was typed up…and seems to be still sick till now…

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