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Telecommunications
Broken Pits Here, Broken Pits There, Broken Pits Everywhere
Nov 16th
Telstra - Broken Pits
The NBN is on the way to delivery and so is the sale of Telstra infrastructure which was once previously owned by the taxpayer valued at approximately $11B AU as it stands.
During my travels around the Brisbane area what is becoming increasing familiar is the yellow tubular temporary fencing that Telstra use when there are works happening on pits and trenches on footpaths or where there are damaged pits awaiting recification.
I have started to take notice of the damaged pits in my area and some of them have had the yellow fencing in place for well over 6 months. Within a 500m radius from my residence there are at least 3 damaged pits that have been sitting for months with the barricade around them.
Telstra are holding off on maintenance as much as possible so once again the taxpayer will be paying for rectification of the pathways that they once owned.
I sincereley hope that Sen. Conroy has allowed for funding of cable pathway rectifications works in that $43B.
Seems like a bit of a co-incidence to me.
What do you think?
Unbelievable Bigpond Plan Changes
Jul 25th
Unbelievable Bigpond Pricing 25/07/2010 - Image credit Bigpond Website
***Update***
Well it looks like the pigs weren’t quite flying yet. After further investigation it appears the devil is in the detail.
BigPond Multiple Product Benefit – You must be eligible for the $10 BigPond Member Benefit plus have one other eligible service on your Single Bill, with a combined monthly access fee of at least $89 (based on the 12-month broadband pricing for customers with a full service fixed phone). Eligible additional services are a BigPond Wireless broadband, FOXTEL from Telstra service or Telstra post-paid mobile.
Which means that the starting price for the Bigpond Elite 50GB Liberty plan is $79.95 per month. Funny that the plan details are on a page with 49 plan in the link. Bit misleading isn’t it Telstra? But that just normal from them.
Are my eyes deceiving me? Is it a blue moon? Is that a pig flying? All these are valid questions when I see the current pricing on Telstra’s Bigpond page.
Telstra pricing is typically out of this world and I don’t mean that in a good way. I am certainly surprised at the current pricing offered by Bigpond today.
I am currently with iiNet on their Home 5 plan which gives me 70gB Peak and 70gB Off Peak for $69.95 per month when bundled with the home phone.
For the same price I can now get 200gB of data (including uploads) from Telstra. That is simply unbelievable pricing from Telstra who have always typically been 50% more expensive than their competitors.
What will be interesting is if Telstra Wholesale also drop their pricing appropriately to other providers or if it will take the usual court case to kick Telstra into gear.
Congratulations Telstra on finally being competitive.
