[plug] Telstra ISDN fee

[Chris Griffin]

Can you just tell them you want to release the ISDN, that, I thought,
should not incurr a fee. Unless it is a fee for cutting short your
ISDN contract/committment?


On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:58:16 +0800, Adrian Woodley
<Adrian at screamingroot.org> wrote:
> G'Day Pluggers,
>           Telstra recently have seen fit to upgrade my local exchange
> (Mt Helena) to xDSL. Yay! Fat pipe for me!
> 
> The problem is that in the interim, while xDSL wasn't available we used
> ISDN. This has been install a little over 2 months. Telstra now want
> $125 to remove ISDN before enabling xDSL on the line. They'll then
> charge again to enable xDSL.
> 
> They do forgo some of these charges if you sign up with PigPuddle ^dw
> BigPond. Oh, how kind of them.
> 
> I want a SDSL 512 connection with Arachnet, my current dialup provider.
> I keep my static IP, free WAIX and its the same provider as work's.
> 
> Any suggestions on how to proceed in the most economical fashion?
> 
> Cheers,
> Adrian
> 
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