atw: Re: FW: Phones and all that stuff - seriously off topic

Christine,
Living in Tassie I've worked out that Telstra is a necessary evil. I've been deliberately trying to move away from them for years but its just not possible where we live. 

Cheer,

Geoff

On 20/12/2007, at 3:54 PM, Christine Kent wrote:


Thanks Chris
This would have been the kind of information I am looking for except I am 
living in Tassie.

I have just checked Virgin Mobile, and there is no coverage where I am
living. I am told that only Telstra Next G covers where I am living - so 
any solution involving mobile plans is a non-starter.


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Subject: atw: Re: FW: Phones and all that stuff - seriously off topic

As far as I know, unless you have an optus cable running outside your
place, you'll be on a telstra land line regardless of the biller. I'm
using Virgin mobile broadband. No land line. I've plugged a handset
into
the router which gives me free local and national calls. Calls to
mobiles and OS are exy, but I use my mobile to call mobiles (because
it's capped) and I either do skype to call OS or use a calling card. It 
works a treat. I'm not doing VOIP through it, but I don't see why you
couldn't. They have a 30 no hassle guarantee. It includes a wireless
router as well. It probably only works in the city, though. They're
pretty good at answering the phone, too.

BTW, the spell checker suggested 'maelstrom' for telstra.

Christine Kent wrote:


Guys
I can’t stand Telstra for another moment. I have gone past angry. I 
have been threatening to move on for several years now, so today I
bite the bullet after being kept on the phone for 32 minutes to get a 
faulty bill corrected – their fault, my 32 minutes.



I am stuck with my Telstra mobile – only Telstra service this area,

so

that’s that.



But how to move on for the rest.  Obviously I want VOIP.  But VOIP
still requires my Telstra landline and my Telstra broadband, (no
wireless here).  So first I have to get rid of them and move on to
another provider.



Does anyone know where I can find composite information that ties
landline, broadband and voip together, and even, if possible, a
composite product? Has anyone researched it lately and what
conclusions did you reach?



When I call companies, their sales staff are only trained to “sell”
their own products using sales scripts.  They cannot  answer

questions
and give high level advice, so when I ask voip people about broadband 
options, they cannot tell me – etc.



Regards, Christine



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