TOCPCs – The Elite Geeks Blog

Looking further into WorkChoices (and following a Whirlpool thread on the subject), it seems that in Victoria, a study conducted has exposed WorkChoices as a reason for lower pay and more hours. I can’t speak certainly on the nature of the statistics exposed in this PDF document, as I was too busy watching Melbourne kick [...]

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I’m curious with the IR laws being such a big election issue as to whether there is any evidence from anyone, a real case study, where the employee was an honest, hard working employee (and not a slacker taking 5 sick days a week) which was disadvantaged to a measurable scale as a result of [...]

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With the likely that Unwired shareholders accept the deal on offer from Seven’s network investment body, the new news that we see is that there is discussions with Seven and Austar over the possibility of Austar’s spectrum in regional areas being sold to Seven, or the possibility of a JV with Austar being done to [...]

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Vasso, a Telstra Shareholder and regular on the Now We Are Talking Discussion Forums, had exactly this to say: Geoff Archer, Your post which eloquently depicts, in a nut shell, the mischievousness of the Minister’s department. Deserves an award by Telstra. It is rather sad that a Federal Minister can be allowed to harbour such [...]

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I think I predicted the future when I wrote my blog post back on September 5th 2007, located here: http://www.tocpcs.com/unwired-engin-and-seven-a-perfect-threesome/. Unwired’s trading halt is a result of the a bid from Seven Network’s Network Investment arm placing a takeover bid for Unwired. What can we expect with Seven teaming up with Engin, and Unwired? Well, [...]

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Vasso (a NWAT shareholder and regular misinformation courier on the NWAT forums) replied to my recent comment on the Telstra forums. I wrote back clarifing further! Vasso, I’m not dreaming, there was an actual article in several online news sources which quoted the government for seeking to reduce its conflict of interest (see: http://www.treasurer.gov.au/tsr/content/transcripts/2006/128.asp). Vasso, [...]

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Unwired has halted its shares from trading pending an announcement. What the announcement contains is what I am interested in! Engin aren’t in a trading halt, so it’s not going to become engin/Unwired anytime soon it seems. The halt might be a result of a few things, but I’m a fan of speculation when such [...]

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Reply to Vasso, in relation to a few comments, one of which claims I am a member of the “Anti Telstra Brigade”. Being Pro consumer, and Pro competition, is obviously not something a Telstra supporter is capable of identifying. If you support competition, and support consumers rights to choice, you are “anti Telstra”, by that [...]

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Attention all NextG customers. Please be advised, your service is now more expensive and / or less valued. Telstra recently increased the speeds available to consumers on its NextG network from 3.6Mbps to 7.2Mbps of the advertised 14.4Mbps available on the network (the hardware Telstra supplies can only get 7.2Mbps PEAK). This new change could [...]

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Reading through the ‘Telstra Forum’ on Telstra’s Now We Are Talking website, it’s very clear that many are expressing their complete dislike of Telstra’s management and current actions. Telstra recently put up a survey for shareholders to answer questions about Telstra and it’s situation. The survey is located here: https://survey.globalreviews.com/telstra/ and asks questions to the [...]

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Another NWAT post (Media Matter’s Blog Comment): Rhonda, you wrote: “The alternative is to let Deutsche Telekom, or some other foreign carrier, do the job for us.” I say, let’s let the foreign carriers do it. Telstra’s had the chance, and the chance again, and again, and again, and again, and again. Each time Telstra [...]

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… Presenting the next possible Google, GoogleCable. Google are believed to be investing in a undersea cable running over the Pacific Ocean. The cable project, which apparently has a project name of “Unity” is expected to be completed and launched in 2009. There’s no direct confirmation from Google about the GoogleCable, however, it does make [...]

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John. You and your fellow shareholders weren’t cheated. It was public knowledge at the time of the T3 sale that the government planned to sell off Telstra so it could remove its conflict of interest in being both the regulator and owner. The government didn’t choose to follow the likes of countries which own the [...]

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I figured I will put something different out on the FTTN proposal I put up last night, simply because where I got to, I thought.. Wouldn’t it be good to try and answer the majority of the questions based around the same model that is based around open source. The idea is sparked essentially from [...]

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The Expert Taskforce have revealed the guidelines which FTTN proposals must adhere to. I got a copy of them for myself and thought I’d run through some of the proposal questions, since that is what essentially is important here. They go through a few questions, such as: Project Title: Bob’s Faster Than Telstra’s Network (Bob’s [...]

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A new reply to NWAT: Brian, OPEL’s rollout was initialling the $600 million. It was decided after awarding to OPEL that they could do more if they got more money, so they kicked in $300+ million more, to expand the deployment to more people. This has nothing to do with Pro or Anti anything. It’s [...]

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A new bill introduced into the Senate is to introduce powers to the Federal Police Commissioner to allow censorship of terrorism and cyber crimes. The ACMA would hold the power to administer the block lists, the Federal Police Commissioner the power to decide what is blocked, and the responsibility for blocking would fall on the [...]

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As I predicted would happen (who didn’t ?), 2Clix withdrew its Statement of Claim against Simon Wright, Whirlpool Owner. They didn’t exactly state reasoning for withdrawing, but one can safely assume the withdrawal is a direct result of all the negative attention they received solely for attempting to take Whirlpool’s owner on in the first [...]

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APC Magazine reported that many of its readers who are Optus customers are getting approached by Telstra with a unique offering. Optus recently announced Fusion plans for broadband, which basically gave unlimited calls, and a 2GB ADSL2+ connection. Telstra doesn’t seem to be able to handle the heat in the kitchen and decided that it’d [...]

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My next post on NWAT: James Bell has mentioned a lot of what I was going to say. The points that Telstra don’t seem to get are: – Legal action. It’s a tool to be used when someone has done wrong by you. No one has done anything, and as your own documents state, it [...]

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Telstra recently threatened to take Helen Coonan to court (again) over actions she was planning to take which would require Telstra to keep CDMA operational until NextG services equalled, or better served users in the CDMA footprint. Telstra didn’t seem to think it’s alledged nationwide network that has “coverage everywhere you need it” was going [...]

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OPEL’s taxpayer funded network has a distinct advantage over Telstra. OPEL is to be Wholesale only. That means OPEL’s sole goal is to get as much market share as it can from the only other competitor, Telstra Wholesale. How will they do that? Well, the first point is the easiest. Many people dislike Telstra with [...]

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It’s not too often I get threats from people / businesses threatening to sue me for defamation, though, I have got 3 threats in the last year. OzVoIP.com – They didn’t like the domain name I chose (with having no prior knowledge they existed) for what they claimed was an attempt to pass off as [...]

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It was previously quoted in the media by an Optus spokesperson that the retail prices for OPEL provided services would be metro comparable, and the price attached to that metro comparable was $35 to $60 per month. Recently, another news article has been pushed out, showing that OPEL provided services retail prices would be up [...]

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Telstra was apparently made aware that they had lost the tender many weeks before the winner was announced. A government insider apparently tipped Telstra off about the tender being lost and they were then already sending the case to the Telstra legal team to determine if they were able to invalidate the tender. As I [...]

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Accounting software n00bs, 2clix lodged a Statement of Claim in the Brisbane Supreme Court claiming that the owner of the magnificent Whirlpool, Simon Wright, has caused them injurous falsehood by not following demands to remove content on the website that was critical of their product offering. The news story was placed on Whirlpool’s front page, [...]

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Telstra with nothing better to do (its not like there are 18% of all phone lines having faults that need repair) have decided that putting Coonan on trial for OPEL wasn’t enough. The OPEL case is more and more looking like a frivilous litigation case and will likely close out with Telstra paying costs of [...]

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Paul, another uninformed n00b on Now We Are Talking wrote: Jason why would Telstra need to delay opel when they do not even plan to start deployment until late 2008 early 2009 , the rural areas covered under the proposal wont even be considered until 2010, with no completion target date on either of the [...]

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I’ve finally been able to set up my new Windows server, and it runs fantastically. I’ve actually not done much in the way of Windows in a hosting setup when it comes to establishing DNS, and POP3 and SMTP. I’m amazed at how simple it is to setup DNS, Mail and Websites under windows. I [...]

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The federal government has decided it will sign a funding agreement with OPEL for $958 million dollars, showing the public that Telstra’s legal action is vexatious and unwarranted. The OPEL funding agreement hands $958 million to an Australian company, OPEL, who will manage a wholesale only infrastructure network for regional australia and offer services at [...]

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