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| Thread ID: 41128 | 2003-12-31 01:42:00 | OT Telecom do it again | Odin (227) | Press F1 |
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| 204336 | 2003-12-31 20:23:00 | Sorry - I take back what I said - I must have missed the part when you said you used Jetstream. | somebody (208) | ||
| 204337 | 2004-01-02 12:46:00 | Yeah I did that about eight years ago after an argument with them where they thought they had me by the balls. Trouble was Bell South had just hit our area and I told them to take a running jump. It still took me about three months to sort out the problem as they could not believe what I had done. What makes me laugh is that I know someone who used to work for telecom and before that when the govt had it and most of the modifications to the network had been done before telecom bought it. There was a girl in Greytown who had a call several years ago from a rep trying to sell her a cell phone; she said "No thanks that is not me at the moment" Next month she gets her telecom bill with another $125 odd for a cell phone. She rings them up and they basicaly tell her the computer says she has one and that is it. They chop her land line off because she refused to pay for the cell phone which she did not have and never requested. As far as I am concerned they are a bunch of arrogant barstards. I do not trust any govt departments after reading a book recently that basically went all the way to the top. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 204338 | 2004-01-02 12:50:00 | >i dont even use the phone or any telecom services You use the phone to connect to the internet so you do use Telecom. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 204339 | 2004-01-02 13:48:00 | They are RIP-offs in the physical department. $500 to hook up a phone line to your house! Even if you dig your own trench! They only have to flip a few switches don't they? And what if you want a new phone jack in your house? They told cold_fusion that it would cost $500 for a 'technician' (sparky) to install a jack for his second line! He just crawled under the house... drilled a hole and poked the line through, then looked up on the net how to wire it up. Didn't even take an hour! I think $500 is the base for everything: "How much is it going to cost me for one of your RJ-11 wall sockets?" "Oh, umm... $500" |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 204340 | 2004-01-02 20:51:00 | > Well let me be the the one to say it... after reading > the related article in the NZ Herald it would appear > that the Telecommunications Commissioner, Douglas > Webb was obviously bribed, And people complain about the things I have said. GOOD ONE CHIEF..... the laws of libel affect this forum as well |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 204341 | 2004-01-02 20:59:00 | > > So how is this reasonable and not an abuse of the > > monoploly they hole over us all . > > Their increase is in line with inflation . > Technically you're not paying anything extra . > Ehhhhhhhh? Tell my wallet that . Technically Mike, I will have to write a bigger check out each month . |
Baldy (26) | ||
| 204342 | 2004-01-02 21:33:00 | > $500 to hook up a phone line to your house! Even if > you dig your own trench! They only have to flip a > few switches don't they? Not that simple . Part of the $500 is a "capital contribution" for the incremental costs of actually providing the infrastructure needed by the extra line . Exchange upgrades for more capacity, network upgrades etc . Otherwise we would all be lumbered with part of the cost, that only those connecting are causing . Even if the cost is not incurred at the time you connect, it will be incurred at some time in the future, so exactly how would you propose it be recovered? If you live rural, where the costs can be more severe its a lot more than $500 I am not commenting on the appropriateness of the costs, just the methodology . Its called user pays . |
godfather (25) | ||
| 204343 | 2004-01-02 21:51:00 | Im amazed anyone see's fit to defend telecom and their charges.Every other company in the world who doesn't have a monopoly has to offer a quality product at a competitive rate,Telecom just get to whack on whatever price they feel like,and due to there being no compition they rather then the market get to decide there minimum profit percentage. And seeing as aussie was mentioned,while i was over there my line rental cost 8 bucks a month,Id much rather pay for local calls then pay 5 to 6 times as much for line rental. |
metla (154) | ||
| 204344 | 2004-01-02 23:21:00 | mmm I forgot that telecom is forced to give free local calls due to the "kiwi share" requirements . but then if I owned the copper wire network and some other company wanted to install their own wizz-bang gadget, and use a government agency to make me let them do it, I'd be pretty anally protective of it too . I think the issue with telecom putting up the line rental is not to do with the price - or service - it's to do with the fact that telecom will make hundreds of millions of dollars for seemingly doing nothing! It's not like "hey everyone we're going to give you 256k minimum with no cap and it's only $40 a month! *includes local telephone calls, and no p2p usage*" Telecom could be seen as a world leader in data etc . . . . but no! instead it wants to lead the world in showing how a company makes money for nothing . :) |
zminos (5010) | ||
| 204345 | 2004-01-03 01:34:00 | Hey before everything becomes free in NewZealand a small point, The whole idea of a successful business is to make money. Telecom are successful. They make money. Good for them. And I would rather have Telecom the way it is today, than the way it used to be. EG: not getting a telephone connection till one became free in the area. Or having to wait over a month to even know when you were going to be connected It amazes me how much rubbishing Telecom gets in this forum. Most of it is from people who know squaddly dit |
Baldy (26) | ||
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