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"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sat, 24 Dec 2016 03:58:54 +1100, "Rod Speed"
> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>>"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:32:24 +1100, "Rod Speed"
>>> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>"Petzl" <petzlx@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>>>>> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 15:16:17 +1100, "Rod Speed"
>>>>> <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> It does appear to be available today at my place.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I was originally planning to stay with dodo until my contract ran 
>>>>>>> out,
>>>>>>> 8 months @ $24/month break fee. Not attractive in the long term,
>>>>>>> myrepublic.net is much better value for 100/40 unlimited, $60, dodo
>>>>>>> wants $100 for that. Dodo will allow you to change to the NBN with
>>>>>>> no contract penalty, but that involves a whole new 2 year contract.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dodo's retention people could only offer me $95/month but were
>>>>>>> happy to halve the break fee to just $99.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I signed up with myreplublic.net, but that froze on the final 
>>>>>>> screen.
>>>>>>> Rang them, but have now been on hold for 25 mins.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>They did eventually answer the phone, had no record
>>>>>>of the online signup so I signed up on the phone.
>>>>
>>>>> I only found FttN was available by checking online
>>>>
>>>>Mate of mine found a big Telstra van down the main street today
>>>>and asked them when it would be available. He said today in half
>>>>the town and a couple more weeks in the other half.
>>>>
>>>>> About a month later letters started arriving from ISP's of offers.
>>>>
>>>>We've been having those for months now, mostly from iprimus and
>>>>someone else I can't remember. None from dodo or telstra tho even
>>>>tho I have used both in the past and currently use dodo.
>>>>
>>>>> Also had problems for Telstra to give me correct bill always over
>>>>> charged by around $10. Took them months to give me a TV modem
>>>>> which I use for programs I miss not paying for any Netflix etc.
>>>>
>>>>Havent used them for more than a decade now. I did use them
>>>>when adsl first showed up, basically in case there were problems.
>>
>>> Well I hated Telecom to ring across the road was a toll cal (046) to 
>>> (02)
>>
>>That's not true. When that was across the road, it was still a local call.

> Didn't aply to me in Campbelltown?

Yes it did.

>>> when we were allowed to use Optus I changed.

>> I do use them for mobile, or more
>> strictly amaysim who resells them.

> Now with NBN freecalls becoming a norm,

That is not correct. You pay extra per month for that.

> something must change even better?

What ?

>>> Problem here is like all bureaucracies they can't or won't
>>> fire dickheads instead they sent them to Sydney's furtherest
>>> outpost. A legacy of this was bodged copperwire instalation.

>>The NBN is being done by contractors.

> Who is doing Turnbulls FttN copper to home?

Dunno, ours used largely unmarked Avis rental vans.

The bigger trucks used to dig the holes that the nodes
are above, in the green metal boxes, were also unmarked,
presumably also rented.

>>> While waiting for phone in 80's to be installed they would
>>> park near the pub all day. When it was pissing down with
>>> rain they might show up to apoligize that it was too wett.

>> Didn't get that with the recent FTTN installation.

> This was the culture of Telecom in those days.

Yeah, contractors make one hell of a difference.

>>> The house was wired while being built and no reason why
>>> the phone should not of been ready when we moved in.

>> When I was building my house in the very early 70s,
>> the buggers would keep digging up the street with every
>> new phone service, always on Saturday at overtime rates.

> That's when they came to my place when it was raining to say to wet
> to dig. Then you would see the truck with digger parked near the pub.

>>> With the phone we got it was crackly and pretty bad even for modem.

>> Mine was fine. I have had a couple of failures in those 45 years
>> now,  but all were back in the exchange, not the street lines.

>> And one of them was fixed by a contractor on saturday morning too.

>> And they did a free diversion to my non telstra mobile while it was down 
>> too.

> Nothing to congratulate Telcome in my area.
> All flamproof couldn't be fired!

>>> Seems everyone was complaing, the local paper gave the email address
>>> of a service manager (but had to sign up to Telstra) who selected his
>>> own "techs" who found my phone wired wrong in less than 10 minutes.
>>> This was after years and 1000's of "techs" who never fixed my bad phone
>>> connection (like Jehovah witness knocking at your door all the time)

>> Yeah, some faults like spurs can remain for ages until
>> someone with a clue works out what the problem is.

> Pissed me off and I'm not the only one.

Yeah, there will always be some stuck with them.

Just went out to talk to the monkeys in Telstra van
parked in the main street this morning. He said that
those they signed up yesterday when it was there
got a start date of 3 Jan for their FTTN service. 

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