telecom; was Re: [plug] RE:iinet support

[Bret Busby]

"de Vries, Arie" wrote:
> 
> Could it be that you ignored the notice advising of the change, that came
> with the phone bill around that time?

No.

> It would have been part of the digital conversion that Telstra performed
> several years ago.

Pity they didn't tell us about it. from the information that was
provided to us, when we shifted to this area, about 7 years ago, the 399
exchane was an ARE exchange. It was the PLUG mailing list, that advised
us otherwise, not telecom. I am not aware of having been advised that we
were not on an ARE exchange, by telecom, apart from the incident
mentioned.

But, then, given that telecom regards Armadale, WA, as a remote
community (telecom does not intend to provide ADSL to Armadale,WA; the
only way to get higher speed data transmission here, is by spending a
couple of thousand dollars on satellite facilities, as we are classed as
a remote community, by telecom; cf previous message posted about this),
telecom probably didn't think it was worth telling us. Remote
communities are apparently not a high priority with telecommunications
companies, in Australia. It's a bit like a widely publicised windscreen
company, that does not service Armadale, despite its advertisements.
These eastern states companies, seem to think that we are in the middle
of the Gibson desert, or something.

> 
> But all you needed to do is inserted the stop call wait code in front of
> your ISP's phone number and issued resume call waiting at the end of your
> internet session.

Why, when the line is used for data, have call waiting? Better to get
the growth excised.

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bret Busby [mailto:bret at clearsol.iinet.net.au]
> 
> It ended up that telecom had, unknown to us,
> changed our exchange type, and, inflicted call waiting on us. That got
> excised, and the problem disappeared.


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Bret Busby

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