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Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote

>> Its arguable that there is much point in even bothering to report
>> telstra faults, someone is likely to report them eventually and its
>> less that clear that when I have reported them to iinet that its
>> actually got telstra to look at them sooner, even when its been
>> a fault thats unique to my phone exchange etc.

> Telstra are not allowed to prioritise retail faults over wholesale faults, or vice-versa, for 
> competition reasons.

I wasnt talking about that, but whether iinet actually reported
the problem to telstra. iinet appears to make it hard for their
monkeys to report a fault to telstra, presumably so they dont
get false reports of a problem with the telstra system.

> By having a wholesaler and reporting them to them, you, as a customer, are just adding an 
> unnecessary layer

I cant report a fault to telstra when I'm not using them, stupid.

>>> I'm thinking in order to save a few bucks, change to Telstra Homeline Budget (then Telstra get 
>>> shafted $10 or so bucks) $19.95, and then

> They dont get shafted at all

>>> I'll have to pay for VoIP $9.95, but hopefully make more savings with 15cent Australia wide 
>>> calls.

>> I dont make enough calls for that to ever pay for itself.
>> The absolute vast bulk of calls I make are local or
>> 1300/1800 calls. It would be handy to be able to have
>> cheap calls to mobiles, but none of the major voips have that.

> Because they want the cream

Nope, because no one has tried competing in that area yet.

It will happen sometime.

>> I wouldnt really care that much about pass thru. I'd be
>> quite happy for the incoming calls to come in on the
>> homeline budget line and just use voip for outgoing.

>>> Take two years+ for it to actually pay it off, given low call volumes.

> Even its a stupid solution