Comments on: BigPond MD Says Telstra is Best Placed to Implement FTTN Network

By: Jammit

Jammit — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 01:33:18 +0000

Oh ha ha - Telstra. This is exactly the sort of lies and bullshit that I'd expect a Telstra big knob to be spouting.

Big pond - When I actually once made the mistake of hiring them - well say on dial up, good connection, fast links, I was able to get 80 meg in a 4 hour session.

Ok doing this for one month, comes to 2.4 Gig.

After exceeding Telstras 300meg download limit, that came to $340.

Useoz - with dial up costs came to $16.

The people in Telstra are pretty consistent in ripping people off, lying, buck passing and giving the run around.

The selling of shares to all the "Mums and Dads" of Australia was a MAJOR con-job.

The people who manage this company have done more to damage the infrastructure and hold back development and to stop the widespread installation of FAST broadband.

If I was the Minsta for telecommunications and the management of Telstra came sucking and sleazing their way into my office, I'd have them all dragged down to the basement, rolled up in carpet and be given the hiding of their lives with a cricket bat.

By: Paul

Paul — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:28:36 +0000

If, you have been one of Telstra's customers that woke up to them Ripping you and the rest of Australia of, would you sign up for there FTTN? There advertised speed are never what you get.
And there reliability from personal exp, is terrible, disconnected every day morning, even when they say there is nothing wrong with there service. Never going to use them again like most people ripped off by Bigpond.

By: Jon

Jon — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:40:51 +0000

Telstra has huge problems, however i know that when it comes to the late roll out of ADSL2+ it was't Telstras fault, the ACCC decided that it was anti-competitive if Telstra had ADSL2+ before the other ISPs were ready, Telstra was band from rolling it out untill another service proveder had already started selling it on that exchange.
Having said that i cant understand their prices for broadband and how anyone can justify paying that much, someone at Telstra needs to have a long hard look at that.
I hope Optus/G9 dont get the cash, what happend to the 1 Billion dollars they got for OPLE? what a waist of money! they should get some 3rd party to build it and the government can manage it.

By: James C

James C — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 06:26:55 +0000

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By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 05:51:03 +0000

Let's give Telstra another grant to behave like a business that cares about what its customers want - that will fix EVERYTHING!

Big, reliable and scalable - certainly not all traits I've found BigPond to offer, so what would make them the experts on such attributes?

You couldn't be more spot on I don't think - not a capacity problem, but a Telstra problem. That said, Telstra's capacity problems are well documented too. Funny how so few competing ISPs seem to run into the same roadblocks that the big T does when trying to get basic stuff done.

Good on the Australian for publishing these stories too. I notice that the article makes no reference to an alternative view point. Journalism at its best.