Sick of Telstra Bashing

[outback]

Outback,

Tried to give you a greenie but I need to spread some more luvin around

Arrooooohhhhhh

I was wunderin' when someone would pick up.

[Gingermick]

What's that Mick?...... any city south of RockVagas????

Of where? I was talking about any city other than that aweful place an hour north of the gold coast.

I was wunderin' when someone would pick up.

We're fans of woodwork and tools, we dont 'pick up' well

[Schtoo]

Actually Adrian, I'd expect there to be faults and problems all the time here.

All overhead lines, lots more lines, and they have to deal with typhoons, snow and pretty ugly heat.

It's why I mentioned it. I remember having several problems with phone lines back in Oz (I wasn't paying the bill though), but never hearing of one here. I would fully expect that there would be many more problems here, but there isn't.

Simply put, something isn't adding up.

Kiwi, yeah people do sell them on. And people still buy them, even though they are planning to phase them out within a few years. One of the reasons we didn't buy one, just renting it over 7 years. After that time, we own it. If we don't stay that long, then we save cash anyway.

But hardly anyone (including locals) knows you can do that.

At least NHK doesn't bother asking for their money when I answer the door now. Last time was 'hablas Espanóla?' Confuses the heck out of them.

Outback, I noticed. And I believe it's true.

[Rocker]

Adrian,

Question: Tennant Creek is not quite as far away from network infrastructure as some of the places I visited last month, so how is it that without the miracle of Telstra, I was paying less than 50c an hour for broadband internet in the back blocks of Siberia, and Mongolia??

Seeing that Midge is apparently suggesting that Outer Mongolians regularly order their yakburgers from MacDonald's, Ulaan Bator, online with their mobiles, perhaps Sol Trujillo needs to be sent there to study how things are done in other places with a lot of outback.

Rocker

[outback]

Don't send the bastard to me!!!!!!!!!!!!! :mad: :eek: :mad: :eek: :mad:

[adrian]

Adrian,

I live in an area that, according to the latest plan, lies within the 'urban footprint' of Brisbane. When I look up when we are due to get broadband, the answer is "August". It is now mid-September, and still no broadband. If this is the service we 'city' folk get from Telstra, God help the bush.

Rocker

You should go to Optus or Vodaphone or any one of the other overseas owned telcos and see if they can do it faster.
The answer you will probably get is 'we don't do that sort of thing. We wait until Telstra upgrades the exchanges and street cabling and then we get a piggyback.'

[bitingmidge]

Heave ho me hearties!! I'd be thinking this is actually the original Pirate thread!!!


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[Grunt]

Heave ho me hearties!! I'd be thinking this is actually the original Pirate thread!!!

Yar, is the sun over the yard arm yet, ya slimy bilge rat?


Is it still called a hijack if it's done by pirates?

[Daddles]

Is it still called a hijack if it's done by pirates?

Nah, just part of the job description. It's only a hijack when he makes a sensible contribution to a thread. Fortunately, he tends to resist the temptation

Richard

[Rocker]

Adrian,

Four weeks on; and still no progress in getting broadband for my exchange, which was originally promised for August. The only change is that the promised date is now "October". I am not holding my breath. If Telstra treats its customers like mushrooms, feeding them manure and keeping them in the dark, why are they surprised that they are losing market share?

Rocker

[Bodgy]

If Telstra treats its customers like mushrooms, feeding them manure and keeping them in the dark, why are they surprised that they are losing market share?

Rocker

They're not surprised, they simply don't give two monkeys ...'s

Telstra is still simply the rump of an old State Owned Enterprise. The vast majority of employees have the Public Service attitude still, drag your boots into work, do the minimum to get by, go home.

As they still own the copper and the exchanges, there's effectively no competition in this area.

Maybe Taco Bill and his imports will sort it our after privatisation, but thats two very big 'ifs'