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| Thread ID: 63421 | 2005-11-09 02:45:00 | TelstraClear cable broadband restructure | pixeldust (6619) | PC World Chat |
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| 402872 | 2005-11-10 04:18:00 | Chris, I'm quite sure that you, and all the (or both :D) other individual subscribers, are costing them money. They spent a lot of money digging the holes, and they haven't got enough customers to pay for that investment. All they can hope for is to get some big users. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 402873 | 2005-11-10 06:17:00 | Chris, I'm quite sure that you, and all the (or both :D) other individual subscribers, are costing them money. They spent a lot of money digging the holes, and they haven't got enough customers to pay for that investment. All they can hope for is to get some big users.Sure, i admit that it's running at a huge loss, however, losing domestic customers is hardly going to help them reduce these losses, and that was what grantji seemed to be implying! | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 402874 | 2005-11-10 18:16:00 | They spent a lot of money digging the holes, and they haven't got enough customers to pay for that investment. Yeah, but the holes are already there.. right? So where is the loss if they continued to support residential users? I think they're just being a big bunch of namby pamby whiny little wannabes. |
pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 402875 | 2005-11-10 18:42:00 | Hang on, without checking my plan I see very little change from what I signed for earlier this year. If anything its dropped about $5 per month. I have the 1gig and phone for $71.90, and I think my plan cost $76 or there abouts. I consider that pretty good, sure I go over 1gig, but not by much, just a website cruiser rather than gamer. That also includes phone and being cable means you effectivly get a free phone line as well. |
netchicken (4843) | ||
| 402876 | 2005-11-10 19:03:00 | Yes, and that's great, except for the fact that they're removing the 1/10th split which discounts/doesn't charge for national traffic. Depending on where the majority of your usage lies, your usage could increase twofold (I know mine would). | pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 402877 | 2005-11-11 08:19:00 | Oh bugger, you have a point I didn't see that bit .... | netchicken (4843) | ||
| 402878 | 2005-11-11 15:07:00 | Oh bugger, you have a point I didn't see that bit ....Telecom/IHUG - blink never looked so good. Now just another month or so of contract with Telstra........... | personthingy (1670) | ||
| 402879 | 2005-11-13 21:42:00 | Telecom/IHUG - blink never looked so good. Now just another month or so of contract with Telstra........... I hear ya. After looking at ihugs ADSL plans I'm wondering why I ever got TCL broadband in the first place. |
pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 402880 | 2005-11-15 21:03:00 | BUGGER . I got a call from Telecom this morning to tell me that my apartment complex is not even wired for Telecom lines, only Telstra . My choices are: A) Pay literally thousands of dollars out of my own pocket to have the trenches dug and the line put in or B) Stay with Telstra I'm very, very mad right now . :mad: Does anyone know if you can get ADSL from another ISP (such as Ihug) on a Telstra phone line? |
pixeldust (6619) | ||
| 402881 | 2005-11-15 21:37:00 | BUGGER . I got a call from Telecom this morning to tell me that my apartment complex is not even wired for Telecom lines, only Telstra . My choices are: A) Pay literally thousands of dollars out of my own pocket to have the trenches dug and the line put in or B) Stay with Telstra I'm very, very mad right now . :mad: Does anyone know if you can get ADSL from another ISP (such as Ihug) on a Telstra phone line?Sounds like your stuck :( as far as i know telstra lines are set up purely for speech and limited data transfer via dial up . Because they work by having fibre feeding a green box that then sends copper phone lines out to each subscriber within a far smaller radius, it means less flexability to add gear, such as providing ADSL to a single given phone line, this doesn't matter in therie because they send more intence data through that coax cable feeding our cable modems and cable TV boxes . I'd try your luck a bit more with Telecom, as Telstras policy has always been to charge only a local connection fee, but wire in each building as soon as there were customers . Well, thats how one business i know got a telstra connection, which oddly enough was dedicated ADSL (no speech :confused: ) They did not pay for digging up an inner CHCH street, and the 2 days of distraction that created, they did pay a standard fee to have one of the unused lines running the office diverted to the all new Telstra facilitys installed downstairs in the PABX bunker . Surely Telecom would like to open up a whole "apartment complex" of potentual customers, particually if some of them are allready inviting them in? |
personthingy (1670) | ||
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