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<will@xxxx.swaggie.net> wrote in message
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> In aus.comms.mobile Michael J <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Because the landlines are in Dili and the MobileNet is in Australia.
>
> "the" mobilenet? you mean the mobilenet wasn't in east timor (it wasn't
> just dili)? how come mobilenet phones worked there then? my phone said
> "telstra" when it had signal, and i had a mobilenet account. does that my
> "mobilenet" sim was roaming on the "telstra" network?

The infrastructure was simply Telstra MobileNet Equipment, placed in Dili
and connected back to Adelaide via satellite. So you were simply using
Telstra MobileNets network, which is based in Australia.

So therefore a call in Dili to a Telstra Mobile in Australia was just an NDD
call, because you were calling Australia to Australia.

A call from Dili landline to Telstra Mobile in Dili was an international
call because you were calling from Dili to Telstra Mobilenet (Australia).

That was the easiest way to integrate the network.

So therefore you were not internationally roaming, which saved a lot of
money for the people using the mobiles in Dili.

> > There were sales of prepaid cards in stockists in Dili, so whats your
point?
>
> "stockists"??? you really haven't got a clue, have you?! there were a few
> guys hanging around outside the untaet headquarters doing black market
> currency exchange and selling communic8 recharge cards. you could probably
> buy hot phones from them too, i dunno, i never asked. but you couldn't
> recharge "telstra prepaid" accounts anywhere in e.t. - as there were no
> telstra shops or australia post offices.

Credit card recharge by phone (018018848) / 018018008, credit card recharge
by internet, direct debit by phone ... easy.

> > Communic8 prepaid support was available for a free call, so whats your
> > point?
>
> you can't recharge a "telstra prepaid" account via a free call to
> communic8 support.

You can recharge a telstra prepaid acct via a free call to 018 018 848.
95% of people were using communic8, not tpp

> > You dont need to take a plane to Darwin to call customer service
>
> and you can't recharge a "telstra prepaid" account without going to
> darwin.

Wrong. See above, 3 different ways to recharge