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Life is to short to drink the house wine. Give me the Telstra superior product every time.
I have just got the "new 3G" wireless, what a joke I am in Brisbane and the fastest I can get is a download speed of 25 to 30 kbps from Microsoft's website no less, ( 14.5 megabytes in 11 minutes ) even though the network connect icon on my desktop claims 7.2Mbps.
Using the various speed tests on the web I get 220 kbps download, I also have a Telstra 3G wireless on my home computer also in the same office and it is awesome 3300Kbps more than 10 times faster than Optus.
Yes cheap means you get what you pay for.
how pathetic is the company.
so so so sad...
i pity the people who own shares in it!
hahahah, coming from Tel$tra that is hilarious. They have been capping ADSL speeds to 3% of its actual achievable speed for 10 years now for most broadband users, and then they have the balls to call a competitors network slow....
I could not despise a company more than I do Tel$tra for their immoral tactics and the damage they have caused to this great nation all for a buck.
Although I usually am in the hating Telstra group because of all the above reasons and more (dealing with them on a daily basis) is does seem they have got NextG right - at least for mobile broadband. The NextG cards for laptops work very well it all locations i have tested them around Victoria where CDMA never worked well and get very good speed (256kb+ downloads)
Yes, like yourself I am a Telstra customer and in the past must admit that Telstra service did leave something to be desired. However, since the arrival of Sol I can see a definite change in culture with a ever growing emphasis on customer satisfaction with service. This change will not happen overnight but as Telstra gears itself for the war of open competition I believe this Australian company will win back the Australian public and make things very difficult for it's mostly foreigned owned opponents.
...and the 3G Telstra Service Delivery Platform is so lame. Funny how they can spin so much crap on technologies that are so buggy. I played with all of the phones in Telstra's 3G support list, and unfortunately the phone manufacturers are getting models to market so quick that they are prone to so many irritating problems judge Dred. Screw TSDP and tune into JOOST instead and save yourself some money and the environment by denying these execs their millions.
Let's boycott greedy Telstra and support Optus.
Not me Pal I am a true blue Aussie. Just like Telstra.
Support Optus? I just saw their financial report and noticed that the profits all went to Singtel, in other words the Singapore government. Although the Australian dollar appreciated there was no additional benefit to the Australian people, once again Singtel simply reaped a windfall in additional profits. At least with Telstra 16% of their shares are owned by the future fund meaning 16% of all profits and dividends go to our citizen's superannuation and 30% of EBIT goes into the Australian tax coffers. I will accept that there are some shares in foreign hands but at least we still reap some benefit before those shareholders get their dividends.
And all those Singaporians they should stop shopping in Country Road as well, don't they realise they are sending money to Australians!
Oh and didnt Telstra try and operate in Singapore.. Not sure it worked out for them though..
They will not allow any other Telco to establish services in Singapore, every telecommunications service in Singapore is owned by SingTel / Singapore Government.
Also Country Road is selling services to people from around the world and competing on an even footing, taxes are returned into the Australian coffers, profits go back to the owners of the company wherever they maybe, they do not ask to be subsidised for making the clothing or ask to use someone else's factory to make the goods and finally none of my money is used to subsidise the manufacture of the goods.
Whereas SingTel will not allow any completion at all in their own country, every company that wishes to sell a service in Singapore or wishes to connect to Singapore MUST use SingTel. Also they have come into Australia via a backdoor (Optus) and cried poor "we don't have fair access to the infrastructure", please subsidise, enforce dirt cheap rates for ULL access, give us handouts to build networks and while we are at it we will only chase the low hanging profitable fruit from metropolitan areas. At the end of the day the little they have invested in is sub standard and even Optus admit they could have done much better.
What happened when Telstra applied to the ACCC to reduce mobile interconnect fees between carries, a move that would result in lower charges for everyone? Optus claimed it was not fair and fought it tooth and nail. Why didn't we hear anything about this? Because it would have made Telstra look like one of the good guys and that is not what ZDNet is all about.
Why does it bother you whether they are goverment owned or not, unless you are afraid of Singapore declaring war on Australia?
It's called apples for apples, if you want to make a comparison use a valid one. It has nothing to do with Singapore as a country but the regulatory rules that are applied to one compared with another.
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It might not be faster than Telstra's NextG, but I am willing to bet it's a darn sight cheaper! ;-)