Don't ya just love the corporate rip-offs

[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.