Not a huge bouquet with roses and ribbons, but a modest posy that acknowledges Telstra has at last delivered a wireless broadband pricing structure that makes Next G a realistic alternative to land-based services.

It's the second revision Telstra has made to its pricing scheme since July. A cynic might suggest that the first revision was in response to slow uptake, the latest in response to the economic downturn.

I don't want to seem ungrateful, but I think that like those panic-stricken traders bailing out of the sharemarket a week or so ago, Telstra should have moved earlier.

If its current pricing scheme had been available in the halycon days of July, when the tremors from the global economic system were someone else's problem, I would have jumped on it and not bothered hurling bricks.

But now, stalked by recession or depression, I'm wondering not whether I should upgrade my broadband commitments, but whether I should downgrade.

So thanks for listening, Telstra. It's just that the timing is lousy. I'll sit out the economic storm for a while, at least until things calm down a bit, before I reconsider my broadband options.

Unless, of course, you choose to offer the sort of pricing structure that deserves a huge be-ribboned bouquet of roses.