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Thread ID: 86439 2008-01-16 21:15:00 Are Telecom setting themselves Up ? Digby (677) PC World Chat
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631128 2008-01-17 17:22:00 Yes they are very trying. Digby (677)
631129 2008-01-17 17:34:00 It dosent take long for the Telecom bashers to come out of the woodwork.
What ever Telecom try and do people start to whinge.

C1

Come with the territory with a history like theirs. They havent clicked on that people have other places to look now.
rob_on_guitar (4196)
631130 2008-01-17 19:14:00 Come with the territory with a history like theirs. They havent clicked on that people have other places to look now.

You haven't clicked that the choice so far seems to be other companies with even crappier customer service reselling Telecom products that they buy wholesale.
PaulD (232)
631131 2008-01-17 19:40:00 You haven't clicked that the choice so far seems to be other companies with even crappier customer service reselling Telecom products that they buy wholesale.

Thats because none has crappier customer service then telecom.
And the other companies tend to provide a better service to the same product. Go figure...
rob_on_guitar (4196)
631132 2008-01-17 23:40:00 Thats because none has crappier customer service then telecom.
And the other companies tend to provide a better service to the same product. Go figure...

I can tell you that Slingshots service is far worse than telecoms. Slingshot never reply to emails (emails are ignored), and you are often waiting for half and hour on hold if you try to phone them for technical support.

Telecom reply to emails within a day, and I have never had to wait for more than 5 minutes on hold.
robbyp (2751)
631133 2008-01-17 23:46:00 Come with the territory with a history like theirs. They havent clicked on that people have other places to look now.

Why dont the whinging bastards look now and change to another isp and stop whinging about Telecom.
chicken one (6501)
631134 2008-01-18 00:47:00 Why dont the whinging bastards look now and change to another isp and stop whinging about Telecom.

I agree, Telecom have a much bigger share of the broadband market than all the other ISP's put together. So it shows that either people cant be bothered to change, don't want to change cos their worried about billing problems and losing their email address or that the other ISP's are bad marketers.

Not only that it is often reported in the Herald etc that Telecom have converted a FAR higher percentage of their users from dial up to broadband than the other ISPs have.

Which tends to suggest that people go to the other ISP's such as Slingshot to get cheap rates on dial up $ 9.95 or $ 15.00 etc.

Regards

Digby
Digby (677)
631135 2008-01-18 00:50:00 Which tends to suggest that people go to the other ISP's such as Slingshot to get cheap rates on dial up $ 9.95 or $ 15.00 etc.


I'd tend to think it says that Telecom has spent far too much on marketing, and that they have a 'cheap' useless broadband plan, $1 a day with a useless data cap (200mb?). Something like that, and it looks appealing, to people who don't know a lot about it.
wratterus (105)
631136 2008-01-18 03:14:00 I agree, Telecom have a much bigger share of the broadband market than all the other ISP's put together. So it shows that either people cant be bothered to change, don't want to change cos their worried about billing problems and losing their email address or that the other ISP's are bad marketers.

Not only that it is often reported in the Herald etc that Telecom have converted a FAR higher percentage of their users from dial up to broadband than the other ISPs have.

Which tends to suggest that people go to the other ISP's such as Slingshot to get cheap rates on dial up $ 9.95 or $ 15.00 etc.

Regards

Digby

Also other ISPs don't tend to offer the service of telecom, and it is the support that costs ISP a lot of money. Telecom offers 24x7 phone support, and I don't know of many that offer this, and people want this. Companies such as slingshot can provide cheap prices because they don't have the same support of telecom.
robbyp (2751)
631137 2008-01-18 15:21:00 Why dont the whinging bastards look now and change to another isp and stop whinging about Telecom.

They do change, but whinging about telecom is the 'in' thing.
Once someone else becomes as big then they will whinge about them.

I just do it out of habit most of the time. Especially after just moving house and they managed to f*** things up again.
rob_on_guitar (4196)
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