I received a letter today from Optus with my comments in parentheses and italics. Here is what it said: Dear Valued Customer (What is the problem here? Optus can address the envelope to me personally, but can't invest in a data base that personalizes the letter itself? What sort of technology company is this?) Firstly [...]
Those of you who live in the city and are able to get broadband via cable or via ADSL with all you can eat plans…. you don't know how lucky you are! Here in the Australian bush – not that where I live is bush really – its just a place where Telstra was stingy [...]
Tech guys, this is basic routing 101, skip down to the heading “Conclusion”. Non Tech people, you will get a headache reading this, so take two aspirin and read-on. This is something you need to know. A few years ago, the carriers in Australia ganged up on Telstra and said “Hey – who put [...]
In Ben Hur, we were introduced by Hollywood to the concept that some peoples idea of entertainment was pitting a man against a Tiger or Lion as a sport. All that happened was that the “cat” sated it’s enforced hunger by eating the only meat in it’s reach, which unfortunately for the Christian, was [...]
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Tomorrow is the end of the world. For Foxtel at least. Well, as far as having me as their number one unpaid critic. You would think that with all the coverage I was giving them, they would have given me a “comped” account. But no, they ignored me – mostly. Apart from when they took [...]
Teeth are gnashing at Telstra HQ as PPC1 snakes its way across the Pacific ocean floor – edging closer and closer to its termination destiny with its Guam and PNG landing points. Suddenly the smaller ISP’s will have an alternative. Competition might be slow to start with Pipe Networks desiring to recoup outlays before [...]
Last Tuesday just after 6pm I got a sales calls from Telstra’s Big Pond trying to sell me a Next G broadband package. I politely told the saleswoman, Cloe, that I wasn’t a big fan of Telstra because they were not able to sell me a DSL broadband connection, because they don’t have enough copper [...]
In the last decade I owned and managed various ISP’s and Co-Lo businesses; I used to get a buzz out of sitting in front of the monitors and watching the MRTG graphs never peaking. (MRTG Graph “borrowed” from Wikipedia) Peaking was bad; peaking meant that customers were not getting what they were paying for, [...]
In 2000, the OECD announced their “Internet Basket” pricing survey results. Always-On Pricing To take into account the shift toward unmetered pricing the OECD has also compared the price of ‘always-on’ Internet access. The benchmark used to compare these offers is the average price for 150 hours Internet access per month, for OECD countries [...]