#Telstra

[reblogalanaartdream]

Being as I have Telstra as my mobile/ internet 🛜 I had no idea half of Australia’s internet 🛜 was down until guy who use to host giggle & hoots show did a skit about it on TikTok before the news could tell me about it

[ultramaga]

I have a 4G phone. Until recently, the phone company - Telstra - didn't have a problem with that. Then I received a text message telling me that they were blocking me, because I don't have a VOLTE phone. Despite them advertising that they were 'upgrading' to 4G only - i.e. LTE. So what's the difference? I live in a remote area, with poor coverage. VOLTE is more vulnerable to disruption, but is a lot cheaper for phone companies to run. It's worse for customers, unless they are living in the city and there's no crisis. So I - like a lot of poorer Australians - don't live in the city. I'm really unimpressed at being forced to buy a new phone so that they can make more money, and then potentially find that my calls won't connect, or drop out when they do. Telstra was founded by tax money, and is in a weird sort of public/private space, but they are best understood as a monopoly with token competition. If you don't use Telstra in areas like mine, then you can't use a phone. The government required me to have a phone 24/7 and to be on call as I am a disabled pensioner waiting for housing. It told me that if I don't answer the phone when they call, they give the housing to someone else. So it's a big deal, and I have no choice, and I have to add this to the laundrey list of reasons I fvcking despise the government, and yes, I'm aware that only around 1% of the government are actually people you can vote for.

[shadowofthebells]

Telstra. Your hold music is going to make me kill myself. If you know people are going to be on hold for up to an hour why don’t you have a playlist that spans that hour instead of playing the same fifteen second song six thousand times on repeat? Every time it ends it’s like oh good it’s over and then it immediately starts again! ARGH!!

[veggiefritterz]

[ibeattheinternet]

Who would've thought Vodafail could be looked back with nostalgia

[colitcomedia]

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[streetphotographypics]

Old Post Office and Telstra phone box in Charlton Victoria.

[adreamthatsworthkeeping]

Telstra's new ads remind me of Creature Comforts.

[almosttenaciousmoon]

is telstra being stupid again or is it just my modem?

[jodjuya]

>be me

>Make a phone call this morning

>Get a Telstra robovoice beforehand saying "ur phone is about to be disconnected because we're about to turn off 3g"

>am very confused. Phone is 5g phone, why is it getting disconnected???

>check Telstra website. Says to SMS "3" to 3498 to check ur phone.

>results say: "yeah boy, go buy urself a new phone"

>more confusion, because for real this is a *5g phone* using a *4g SIM card*, so Telstra wtf are you talking about???

>investigate further. Oh... maybe it's this?

>investigate *further* further. Find some nerds giving very complicated instructions for how to fix that:

>follow instructions. Get new "VoLTE" icon on status bar as described:

>🥳

>(for completeness, find the script for how to place test calls to 000, so that I can do that when September comes):

I guess if anyone wants to upgrade their elderly phone for cheap, go hit up Facebook marketplace for folks selling off their "disconnected" phones that they've been scared into needlessly upgrading from...

Though I would hope that anyone using a carrier-provided handset has received an OTA update to remedy that "hArDwiREd to uSe 3G fOr eMErGEnCy cAlLs" issue.

I don't have a carrier-provided handset so I guess that's why I slipped that particular lasso... 🤔

[andthebubbles]

internet's doing great today

loading the dash be like 'image' 'image' 'image' and eventually the image may or may not appear

[nostalgiainpages]

Dolly Mag March 2009

Petition to bring back phones with finesse! Hiptop phones and the O.G fuchsia Motorola Razr Flip's need a proper resurgence as they were. None of this modernizing them by giving us a smart phone similar to what we already have with a function to change the screen to look like the old version. Oh no. I want an actual anniversary phone that functions like the older version and I fuckin want it now!

[nando161mando]

@telstra @telstra24x7 @telstra-mobile-phone-deals-blog is such a shithouse company, upping their nbn costs and prepaid costs and offering worse deals as the days drag on, none of it is cost effective or a good deal for any customer.. upping the base $80p/m deal of nbn by $5 more won't retain customers especially when the service is absolute dog shit on prepaid and nbn services. The customers have been getting shafted since day 1.

[bluestonebliss]

Fuck telstra.

[archie-blog]

Australian Bloody Mindedness!

I find it interesting, and passing strange that a species with such a short memory span and even shorter tempers has spread so far across the earth’s surface and even considers itself the pinnacle of evolution. Let us consider just a few events of this century and how we, as a species, have reacted. Firstly, here in Australia, in the distant past, we had a communications network, run by the…