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Free Calls to Santa and Friends From Telstra Payphones @ Telstra

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Our payphones are free for all calls within Australia to standard fixed line numbers and calls to standard Australian mobiles all year round – but this December, we’re also opening up the lines to Santa’s Workshop!

From 5-24 December, we’ll be offering free calls to Santa and his festive friends from all of our almost 15,000 payphones around the country. Children around Australia can connect to Santa, Mrs Claus, and Santa’s right-hand Elf for a Christmas chat just by dialing a payphone.

Aussie kids can call Santa’s Workshop from any Telstra payphone by dialing # HO HO HO, which is #464646 on the keypad. We’ll put them in direct contact with Santa’s switchboard – and then they can press 1 for Santa, 2 for Mrs Claus, or 3 for Santa’s friendly Elf.

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    • +37

      not international, e.g the North Pole

        • +1

          Well i just tried it from my mobile and get…

          We are unable to connect your call as we don't support calls to this destination. For more information on international calls…..

          • -4

            @M00Cow:

            Well i just tried it from my mobile and get…

            It works fine from a payphone.

            • +3

              @jv: But apparently it's not a local number.

              • -4

                @M00Cow: It is a local number from my local payphone

                • +1

                  @jv: It's a **free call* from your local payphone. But according to Boost, it's not a local call.

        • +2

          It's like the telemarketers. It appears as a local number but they're working out of India / philppines / Nigerian castle. In this case, they're working out of North pole.

          • -2

            @paaj: So Santa has outsourced his call centre ?

            • @jv: Totally,. it's a freecall but hey have they got a Telstra/Origin/Real Insurance deal for you!

    • -5

      Yeah, but now they come with free COVID on the surface of the handset, ready to ruin your Christmas.

      • -1

        Reason for the vote downs? People enjoy Covid now?

        • +1

          More likely to catch it via airborne transmission than off a surface.

          • +1

            @sween64: More likely yes. But still possible. If it was my child I’d just let them use one of the countless apps that can be installed on a personal phone.

    • +7

      payphone calls are always free

      Then why are you calling them payphones?

      • +2

        legacy name

  • +1

    Are the Claus family just tele-bots? Or actual people?

    • +8

      Who in the hell is going to pay actual people to cover a free national phone line 24/7 to talk shit with the kids and stoners of Australia?

      • +12

        Telstra?

        • +1

          Yeah most likely outsourced to an offshore call centre

      • It's most likely a pre-recorded message.

  • +22

    Careful kids, last time I tried a free hohoho in a phone box, I had to marry her 8mths later.

    • +1

      You missed out on free returns period. That’s 7 months and 29 days

    • +11

      Count yourself lucky you didn't have to marry the other two

    • Don't worry that was from a previous promotion when they had free calls to 1902-SXC-SNTA

    • +1

      Instructions unclear. Now paying child support.

      • just quit work then, no more income, no child support, no problems

  • HO HO HO

  • +1

    Do we need to provide kids passport details etc?

    • +17

      No, this one is provided by telstra, not Optus.

  • +1

    Santa is a sim slut

    • Santa is a pimp who likes to pimp his ho ho ho.

  • +12

    Telstra will also donate $1 per call to the Salvos… so there's additional benefit here

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