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Telstra’s CEO, Sol Trujillo indicated that time is running thin for the government to get together its independant group of professionals (in the governments opinion) to determine the fibre to the node proposals that exist, establish a framework, and decide who will build the starting leg of Australia’s next generation network. FTTN isn’t supposed to [...]

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Limits on usage are some what of the norm here in Australia. Generally you don’t get an unlimited internet connection, you instead, get a limit of xx(x) GB and after you reach that limit, you are slowed right down to dial up speeds. There are a few driving forces behind this, as opposed to countries [...]

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An article several days ago was printed in ‘The Age’, Singapore was found to own a lot of Australian resources. They own: Optus Australia. This ownership done via SingTel, owned by a holdings company, which the singapore government also has a interest in (not sure if this is of a controlling level however). Myer Melbourne. [...]

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.. I’ll get to that shortly. However, I want to again recap the update I made earlier, Now We Are Talking went back and placed my post on the website, perhaps a combination of an email to Sydney Lawrence and follow up comments later suggesting they weren’t doing themselves a favour by denying anyone a [...]

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UPDATED: Now We Are Talking have since gone through and recovered my censored comment and posted it, it is: Oh, Steve Toole, It’s not that hard to find it again. I won’t publish a URL here, but Sensis Search will help you no doubt. Just only a few responses to your reply though: 1. Sydney [...]

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Recently, on Now We Are Talking, Mr Steve Toole (who I will show shares a resembelance to another spell) wrote this: Mr. Torrento, I find it amusing that according to you, anyone with even the slightest kind word to say about `Telstra is “always intentionally dishonest and wrong” and you are personally, “always right and [...]

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GoTalk, the company that purchased the poorly administered, financially incompetent Wild I&T has decided to take the cousin of the company, Koala Telecom. Koala Telecom has 2500 customers, and has a long running bad reputation. Some items worth highlighting: – VoIP server downtime. Koala, when I started OzVoIPStatus was so unreliable, that I had no [...]

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Apparently, according to one Now We Are Talking user, it’s not Telstra’s fault they price their Regional Backhaul at the excessively high rates that they do price them at. It seems, the real blame isn’t Telstra. Jason Torrento has it occurred to you that perhaps the reason the regional backhaul pricing is high is that [...]

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I was recently tackling a spam issue today. A domain I have (no, its not this one, and its not the other popular one), has been getting spam sent to it at a not so low rate. The domain doesn’t have a link in the search engines, and hasn’t been published anywhere. But the spammers [...]

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I did a item for someone recently, and it was coded up and working fine, so fine, it was almost perfect. However, unfortunately, the server the item runs on has issues processing the code to perform as expected, and most times, it’ll work successfully, but there are times where it just won’t work, repeatedly for [...]

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In addition to yesterday’s apparently long article (looks short to me?), I didn’t actually state a few other things related to that topic. The topic was telco consultant, Kevin Morgan, who is likely to be on Telstra’s own payroll, about FTTN, and the compensation claim that could follow it, totalling $20 billion dollars (yeh, right). [...]

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There was a recent article published in The Age, by Kevin Morgan, one of Kim Beasley’s ex-idiot (or employee, whatever you want to call him). The article claims that Telstra is the only choice for broadband, which is an absolute load of crock. The article claims Kevin Morgan is an independent telecoms consultant, let me [...]

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Reading more on the Now We Are Talking, I was thinking, what’s more important to this nation, the businesses (and monopolies) that thrive off it, and the people that live in it? Fast Pr0n Affordable Internet Access Return on Investment Well, let’s think for a moment. Fast Pr0n: While this might speed up the time [...]

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Today I found a lot of connectivity issues on my colocated server. It was rather surprising to discover the continuous streams of downtime. I was even more amazed to discover that I could likely accomplish the same job for a price of $59.95 for a 512/512 connection. It’s a little slower, but in the end [...]

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Welcome to a new theme, this theme is a little more, readable, and much easier to read, and allows a little more focus on the comments section, which I don’t think many others were finding too easily in the previous theme. This theme is a little more easier on the eyes, drops the green effect [...]

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It seems that the so called discussion guidelines on the Now We Are Talking website go right out the window in some cases. Cases where Telstra’s rather absurd agenda is being supported by the uninformed. Forums like Whirlpool, allow discussion based solely on the rules they set. People can post what they like to, anything [...]

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A recent news article has come to my attention that the government plans to spend $1m ($1,000,000) or one million dollars, on a campaign with only ONE goal. It’s not the goal of promoting broadband’s benefits and cost savings to consumers, it’s not the website they established to outline metro comparable plans for Australians. It’s [...]

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I often wonder what is the point of Telstra gaining money, if the next week, or next month, or next year, they are going to have to give it all back to where they get it from anyway? Such a case has happened again recently, with Telstra ordered to return the ‘lunch money’ sum of [...]

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I was recently asked by a friend I know that runs a internet business (heh, I know too many people with internet businesses), to make the dispatch and invoicing system.. simpler. I took a look at what they had at the moment, and .. I was surprised. The invoice was this tabbed (you know, the [...]

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I’ve had my machine now for 2 years. It’s a fantastic machine, has a 3Ghz P4 630 Processor, running on a Gigabyte GA-8IPE775-G, has 3GB of DDR 400 RAM, 2 x SATA, 2 x IDE, 2 x Optical, and 2 x Graphics cards, a 6200 256MB AGP8x, and a fx 5200 PCI 128MB. That’s been [...]

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Telstra have taken the correct way this time, and worked with the regulator to get regulations removed from a part of its network. With Optus’s massive fixed network roll out, Telstra deem that there is enough competition in the areas that have Optus ADSL2+ and phone that the regulations about Wholesale rates should be dropped. [...]

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Firstly, let me state here that the previous test I ran on the Blog Toon, about comparing Telstra to just about every other provider on the market, was indeed published, despite rather lately, but none the less published. It seems to me that when people get close to exposing censorship on the website of fair [...]

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Optus seem to have followed Bigpond on a bad decision, recently, announcing they will release NEW plans counting upload data. But that’s hardly a problem for many, when you consider that you get, not 100 free local calls, not 5.00 worth of mobile calls, or some other poor, pathetic Telstra HomeLine equivilent plan. You get [...]

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I’ve been monitoring the ADSL2+ coverage from Optus on the Let’s Go website (here: http://www.letsgo.com.au/adsl2.php) and have discovered that the roll out has slowed considerably. I wrote a post some months back about Gosford’s upgrade to ADSL2+ due soon, and the possibility that while they were coming this way, they’d drop by and install ADSL2+ [...]

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Just a short post on this bit now, the Now We Are Talking site, I’m putting to the test. I read this BlogToon here. The author is basically stating that SingTel is the new tax man. I’ve put the following reply through, I find this response to be accurate, and reasonable, considering the topic of [...]

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Interesting news developed today with Now We Are Talking. I was going on a quick stroll to see just what other misleading, incorrect information was being placed on the site, and surprise, I found a reply to a previous comment from Sydney Lawrence, a Brisbane Telstra Shareholder and the person behind Telstra Active Supporters. I [...]

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With the launch of BroadbandNOW.gov.au, a site that nearly runs in competition with Whirlpool Broadband Multimedia’s Broadband Choice, the government owned community website takes a different look at helping consumers choose a broadband plan. The Broadband Choice plan search is more targetted towards the users who know what an “upload” is for example. The BroadbandNOW [...]

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Amazingly, Now We Are Talking (The Sewer), has had a change in what they censor. Syd Lawrence wrote this today: It has indeed been an honour to be associated with the NWAT site and to take part in the struggle to get a fair go for Telstra and a sensible result for Australia. The Howard [...]

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Just when you thought the sewer couldn’t get any more full of … sewerage, Now We Are Talking allow this rather questionable comment on the discussion board, posted by none other than the turd himself, Sydney Lawrence: Steve Toole… Having read your informative post concerning the hateful ranting of Jason Torrento some days ago, I [...]

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I’ve recently moved server (again). I’ve had to move between servers for a little while now because of a few issues that were causing software issues. Those issues have been focused on and solved, however, each time I move server, and begin reconfiguring, I always consider each one could be done a little differently. Each [...]

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