Don't ya just love the corporate rip-offs

[Louwai]

The company I work for has obviously been negotiating heavily with Telstra on call costs.
I've just been given access to my on-line company ph acc so I can allocate individual call costs to specific project costs.

Companies always get a better deal on call costs than us jo average, but faaar out.
My call costs work out to 1.1 CENTS per minute. Far less than the average 30cents per 30 seconds +18 cent flag fall that most people pay with Telstra.

Just one more reason to despise Telstra.
I have no dealings with them at all other than my company provided mob.

[tomrux]

yep
on average my company mobile costs about 4 bucks a month.

my private one fckin $80 for about quarter of the traffic


Tom

[Louwai]

yep
on average my company mobile costs about 4 bucks a month.

my private one fckin $80 for about quarter of the traffic


Tom

I've got my private one with TPG Tom. $10/mth for $300 of credit. Suits me..

[tomrux]

the amount of traveling i do, unfortunately telstra is the only game in town.

Tom

[Raging]

yeah, unfortunately in rural areas telstra are the only provider offering good coverage. hopefully one day it will change

[DjPete]

Changing to VOIP for my home phone has been the best thing I've ever done.
Literally saving thousands a year.
With an 18 yo daughter you know what they are like on the phone and especially calling mobiles.
Now...no stress.
I pay $18 a month and that's it, covers everything.
Unfort I have to also pay Telstra line rental of $20 a month but even with that I save HEAPS.

Just get a VOIP box for $70 and away you go.
All through my existing cordless phone system (4 cordless phones) so you don't know the difference at all.
Highly recommended.

I use Pennytel and am very happy.
http://www.pennytel.com/au/index.jsp

[Louwai]

the amount of traveling i do, unfortunately telstra is the only game in town.

Tom

I hear you Tom, but I have to say I've been suprised with mine. When I changed from Telstra & was expecting some coverage issues. To date I've had none.
The TPG mob acc is via SOUL which is part of the OPTUS network.
I regularly travel between Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne without a coverage problem.
Even recently (2wks ago) when I was in Shanghai, China I had roaming coverage with my TPG acc.

So far it's provided the same coverage as the old Telstra acc.

[Astro]

the amount of traveling i do, unfortunately telstra is the only game in town.

Tom

I hear you Tom, but I have to say I've been suprised with mine. When I changed from Telstra & was expecting some coverage issues. To date I've had none.
The TPG mob acc is via SOUL which is part of the OPTUS network.
I regularly travel between Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne without a coverage problem.
Even recently (2wks ago) when I was in Shanghai, China I had roaming coverage with my TPG acc.

So far it's provided the same coverage as the old Telstra acc.

Similar story here. I changed from Telstra to OPTUS in June and haven't noticed the difference. Oh wait... there are some differences... cheaper, easier to access, better problem resolution and they aren't Telstra. Does it for me.

When my father moved out of his house and into a specialist hospital, I tried for 3 weeks to get onto Telstra (October last year) to get the line disconnected, but could never get through ... even after waiting on the line for 45 minutes more than once. I complained to the Ombudsman. Telstra responded 6 weeks later. It took another 8 weeks to sort it out. The phone was finally cut off on March 27th, 2009. He'd passed away by then. Not a fan of Telstra.

[NEMESIS]

Changing to VOIP for my home phone has been the best thing I've ever done.
Literally saving thousands a year.
With an 18 yo daughter you know what they are like on the phone and especially calling mobiles.
Now...no stress.
I pay $18 a month and that's it, covers everything.
Unfort I have to also pay Telstra line rental of $20 a month but even with that I save HEAPS.

Just get a VOIP box for $70 and away you go.
All through my existing cordless phone system (4 cordless phones) so you don't know the difference at all.
Highly recommended.

I use Pennytel and am very happy.
http://www.pennytel.com/au/index.jsp

Hmm i might have to suss it out dj!