[plug] Bloody Telstra

[W.Kenworthy]

There's a number of alternatives: I moved to iinet and besides saving a
heap of money (inet + phone bundle), it seems much less of a "blood
boiler" (the mobiles went to vodafone prepay - big big saving there as
well).  There's probably cheaper, but I am very happy with the service,
and dont regard myself as being "gouged" as I did under Telstra.

Unfortunately you still need a copper wire and provider for it as far as
I can see - a SIP phone on ADSL over wireless may be an alternative if
available.  Check if a neighbour has an open wireless connection ...
errr, forget I said that ...

BillK

On Tue, 2005-11-15 at 11:04 +0800, David Dartnall wrote:
> Last month we received a letter from Telstra saying in part:
> 
> ... the monthly line rental for HomeLine Part services will increase 
> from $26.95 to $31.95 from the 1st of December 2005 to recover more of 
> the cost of providing access to this service.
> 
> How can we get away from Telstra? Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 
> I know this is 'OT' but maybe there will be a Linux flavour in the 
> responses.
> 
> regards
> Dave D
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