🚀 go-pugleaf

Well I'm living in a hotel in the centre of Melbourne and decided to get
a phone line put in. I rung up the appropriate office and was told that
it would cost $173 for the connection to the network $43 for a rental
phone and the technicians time and materials so I agreed to get it done
and went through some questions and she said that she would ring back
when she knew when it could be connected and the number and I said that
I'd like it to be connected some time this week (this was wdnesday morning)
to be fair I was out for the a lot of the rest of that day so I rang back
and asked about my connection, I got told the number and that it was set for 
thursday but no time was entered I said that I was supposed to be rung back and
she said that I probably would be. but I wasn't rung for the rest of that day
so I rang again the next morning and was told that that it was slated for 
10 - 12 that day and I said I was unavailable until after 12 so she said 12 - 2
so I said fine. The technician showed up at 1 and spent about 45 minutes laying 
the cable, testing the line, and connecting it to the exchange downstairs.
charged $45 for his time and $5 for materials (I think he dropped the price]
of both because I was a student) and so I got a phone.

all in all no complaints however I do question the $173 when all they do is 
connect the number to an exchange by a computer, little different to a 
re-connection.

optus won't do connections until 1997 in fact all they do do is pabx stuff
mobile phones and std isd things and most of there stuff is done on leased
parts of the telecom network.

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| |/ /		                Chris Diffey                                   |
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