[plug] Telstra rort

[Russell Steicke]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 04:38:26PM +0800, Ben New wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I think this might be another case for the ACCC. 
> 
> We are in the process of moving, and found it impossible to determine 
> whether ADSL is available before accepting the lease.  We are now stuck 
> with a 12 month lease on a property which doesn't support ADSL.  The 
> stupid thing is, this place is in Rivervale, not 10km from the centre of 
> Perth.  The story goes like this:

Although you should be able to find out things like this beforehand, you
could work around this by enquiring about the 'phone number at a
potential neighbour's place.

It's not guaranteed (it's possible you'll be on a different exchange
to your neighbour, I suppose) but likely to work.



-- 
Russell Steicke

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