Telstra to Offer Free Data for The over 9000th Time for over the 9000th Fail

Diji1 on 23/05/2016 - 09:21

After delivering a normal level of service failing to deliver the internets to around 350,000 people over the weekend Telstra has announced that they will no longer be charging for internets will be giving away more free data to a subset of customers.

Apparently it won't be a free mobile data day due to people actually using the free data on a day Telstra chose because they usually don't use data some reason although Telstra has not announced exactly how the free data thing will occur.

Speculations are rife that the free data will be added to Telstra broadband plans where the data usage meter hasn't been working for all of 2016 so customers will be unable to see that they got any free data at all that will make up for everything and customers won't notice that Telstra doesn't know how to run an ISP ;)

Sauce: http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2016/05/ready-your-routers-tels…

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  • [Deactivated] on 23/05/2016 - 09:38

    At work we are on Business ADSL with telstra, 2x ADSL lines coming into our office, each at ~4mbit down / 120k up, connected to a splitter modem to give us 8mbit/256k.

    When it was down on Friday, they gave us a 4g dongle to get us through till its fixed. Connects at 50mbit down / 20mbit up. Ridiculously fast compared to our shitty adsl solution (which we pay full price for on each line).

    We have 30 days / 25gb until we are back to our shitty ADSL. Should last a whole week.

    • [Deactivated] on 23/05/2016 - 09:48
      +1

      ADSL at work…
      How can that speed possibly be enough?

      • [Deactivated] on 23/05/2016 - 09:50

        You'd be surprised how many workplaces in Australia use ADSL.

      • ESEMCE on 23/05/2016 - 10:26

        Probably depends what you're doing and with how many people.

      • lupiter on 23/05/2016 - 11:06

        We have 2x ADSL lines too, and it's not enough. And yet, we have no choice. A fiber line (from the basement! not from the street!) costs >20k and the ongoing cost is 4x that of ADSL.

        Plenty of businesses don't have a fiber line anywhere nearby. :(

      • [Deactivated] on 23/05/2016 - 13:10

        Its horrible. We are an online business with about 10 people using it constantly.

        So much lost productivity. We are in the business area of Noosa, Sunshine coast.

        The 8mbit down is not too bad, the ~200k upload is what kills us. especially when uploading 3mb files.

  • Christy Bambi on 23/05/2016 - 11:00
    +6

    The internet is bad in Australia, wait till next year when Australias internet ranking will drop below more third world countries. The government and telstra are just scum

  • Rifraf on 24/05/2016 - 21:11

    Surely you guys can't be telling the truth because Christopher Pyne was quoted "People didn't need the speeds Labor was promising".
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-05-24/qanda-albanese-pyne-nb…

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