But is it a tasty burger, or long term dietary data disaster?
We've commented before that the rift between the amount of data offered on ADSL and ADSL2 services was widening rapidly, with much better bargains available if you're lucky enough to be adjacent to the right exchanges.
That gulf got a whole lot wider today with iPrimus announcing a package that they've dubbed "The Big Kahuna". They probably just want customers to think of large Hawaiian things, but we can't help but think "Pulp Fiction", and Samuel L. Jackson's turn as hitman Jules Winnfield. But is this offering really a tasty, tasty burger?
Well, on the surface, it would appear so -- the basic Big Kahuna offering gives you a generous 200GB download allowance for $79.95 a month.
Just like a tasty burger might leave you with a touch of indigestion, there are some catches to the Big Kahuna that are worth bearing in mind.
First of all, the contract term -- a not-so-tasty mandatory 24 months. Two years is a long time in broadband provision to be tied down to a single provider.
You've also got to be a big fan of scheduled downloads; of the 200GB monthly provision, only 40GB of it is "peak" period download, between 9am and 3am daily. That leaves you with the 3am to 9am period to utilise the remaining 160GB. In the average month, that's got to work out at just over 5GB per day in that six hour period -- and even with uploads being counted towards your total, we reckon that's some pretty serious data shifting.