Telecom New Zealand Ltd. is no longer actively promoting its full-speed JetStream DSL plans, preferring to offer a "simplified" line up of slower plans.

The telco first offered its full-speed JetStream plans, capable of at least 2M bps (bits per second) downstream and with an upstream speed of around 600k bps, in 1999. However, since launching its new Broadband Venture business plans this month, it has stopped promoting the full-speed plans and will only offer them to customers who ask for them specifically. Last week all mention of the full-speed plans had been removed from Telecom"s website.

The new business plans have been criticized for not offering better upload speeds -- they are all rate-limited to 128k bps upstream. Telecom has also come under fire for the price of full-speed plans, which cost thousands of dollars a month.