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Life is to short to drink the house wine. Give me the Telstra superior product every time.
I have just got the "new 3G" wireless, what a joke I am in Brisbane and the fastest I can get is a download speed of 25 to 30 kbps from Microsoft's website no less, ( 14.5 megabytes in 11 minutes ) even though the network connect icon on my desktop claims 7.2Mbps.
Using the various speed tests on the web I get 220 kbps download, I also have a Telstra 3G wireless on my home computer also in the same office and it is awesome 3300Kbps more than 10 times faster than Optus.
Yes cheap means you get what you pay for.
how pathetic is the company.
so so so sad...
i pity the people who own shares in it!
Surely you don't mean those who purchased T3. From $2 to $2.90 in month aint bad.
hahahah, coming from Tel$tra that is hilarious. They have been capping ADSL speeds to 3% of its actual achievable speed for 10 years now for most broadband users, and then they have the balls to call a competitors network slow....
I could not despise a company more than I do Tel$tra for their immoral tactics and the damage they have caused to this great nation all for a buck.
Although I usually am in the hating Telstra group because of all the above reasons and more (dealing with them on a daily basis) is does seem they have got NextG right - at least for mobile broadband. The NextG cards for laptops work very well it all locations i have tested them around Victoria where CDMA never worked well and get very good speed (256kb+ downloads)
Yes, like yourself I am a Telstra customer and in the past must admit that Telstra service did leave something to be desired. However, since the arrival of Sol I can see a definite change in culture with a ever growing emphasis on customer satisfaction with service. This change will not happen overnight but as Telstra gears itself for the war of open competition I believe this Australian company will win back the Australian public and make things very difficult for it's mostly foreigned owned opponents.
...and the 3G Telstra Service Delivery Platform is so lame. Funny how they can spin so much crap on technologies that are so buggy. I played with all of the phones in Telstra's 3G support list, and unfortunately the phone manufacturers are getting models to market so quick that they are prone to so many irritating problems judge Dred. Screw TSDP and tune into JOOST instead and save yourself some money and the environment by denying these execs their millions.
Let's boycott greedy Telstra and support Optus.
Not me Pal I am a true blue Aussie. Just like Telstra.
austrailian a telstra sux plain and simple
Support Optus? I just saw their financial report and noticed that the profits all went to Singtel, in other words the Singapore government. Although the Australian dollar appreciated there was no additional benefit to the Australian people, once again Singtel simply reaped a windfall in additional profits. At least with Telstra 16% of their shares are owned by the future fund meaning 16% of all profits and dividends go to our citizen's superannuation and 30% of EBIT goes into the Australian tax coffers. I will accept that there are some shares in foreign hands but at least we still reap some benefit before those shareholders get their dividends.
And all those Singaporians they should stop shopping in Country Road as well, don't they realise they are sending money to Australians!
Oh and didnt Telstra try and operate in Singapore.. Not sure it worked out for them though..
They will not allow any other Telco to establish services in Singapore, every telecommunications service in Singapore is owned by SingTel / Singapore Government.
Also Country Road is selling services to people from around the world and competing on an even footing, taxes are returned into the Australian coffers, profits go back to the owners of the company wherever they maybe, they do not ask to be subsidised for making the clothing or ask to use someone else's factory to make the goods and finally none of my money is used to subsidise the manufacture of the goods.
Whereas SingTel will not allow any completion at all in their own country, every company that wishes to sell a service in Singapore or wishes to connect to Singapore MUST use SingTel. Also they have come into Australia via a backdoor (Optus) and cried poor "we don't have fair access to the infrastructure", please subsidise, enforce dirt cheap rates for ULL access, give us handouts to build networks and while we are at it we will only chase the low hanging profitable fruit from metropolitan areas. At the end of the day the little they have invested in is sub standard and even Optus admit they could have done much better.
What happened when Telstra applied to the ACCC to reduce mobile interconnect fees between carries, a move that would result in lower charges for everyone? Optus claimed it was not fair and fought it tooth and nail. Why didn't we hear anything about this? Because it would have made Telstra look like one of the good guys and that is not what ZDNet is all about.
Why does it bother you whether they are goverment owned or not, unless you are afraid of Singapore declaring war on Australia?
It's called apples for apples, if you want to make a comparison use a valid one. It has nothing to do with Singapore as a country but the regulatory rules that are applied to one compared with another.
When a company sells its stock, its sells a part of it self. If Telstra has sold shares to people in every country around the world. Then the company is no longer all Australian! When will people relise that a lot of T shares were sold to the Hong Kong population! Who owns telstra, over 1 million people world wide. This is no longer an all Australian Company!
What people need to know before buying unpluged from Optus. There connection speed has nothing to do with the bandwith limits they have in place. It may state it connects at 3MB, This is true, some people get grater some do not. but the real truth is, The Optus system download rate is sett to a maximum of 128kbps. This is the truth from one of there own workers! Dont be fooled by Optus. When i used my optus 3G mobile for internet on my laptop. it claims i used 27mb just from loading up the Google page. Now who is realy being ripped of hear! i am sure once again its the customer. Telstra have told me before, that if its customers would stop inserting cards into there devices that come from other networks than there would not be such a need to lock and repackage everything. NO NETWORK CAN EVER FUNCTION FASTER THAN TELSTRA AS TELSTRA CONTROLLS THE SPEEDS FOR ALL NETWOK USAGE HERE IN AUSTRALIA.
Yes you are correct, Telstra does control all of the networks and has restricted their connections speeds but Telstra is still a laugh. they advertise as the fastest wireless connection in the world but I am sorry to say Telstra... you are wrong... miles wrong. With Telstra saying they have around 23Mb/s wireless is not even half the speed of some of the developing 3rd word Asian countries. China for instance has free internet in their local hotels and free wireless internet in the CBD of the major cities. where you can connect to the internet from your laptop at up to 54Mb/s and your mobile phone at a 11Mb/s. from your home or office you can connect via the phone line using a dial-up service (old 56k) for free and no need to have an account. there are no ISP's in China, all internet is through the telephone companies.
As for the broadband, their minimum speed is 100Mb/s and a whopping 400Mb/s via a cable connection. Telsta... you're a joke and for Australia, you are extremely expensive for what you offer. TOO EXPENSIVE. Even Kevin Rudd's new broadband plan is still behind the times. The UK has had free internet services for 20 years. The way I see it... Australia has become too greedy.
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It might not be faster than Telstra's NextG, but I am willing to bet it's a darn sight cheaper! ;-)