Thread: Bloody Telstra

Originally Posted by Eevo

you're about 20 years too late.

Well that was for if anyone still had them, they along with NBN-Co and other terrestrial carriers are going to plummet , I missed the peak but dumped mine about 15 years ago.

Originally Posted by goingbush

Well that was for if anyone still had them, they along with NBN-Co and other terrestrial carriers are going to plummet , I missed the peak but dumped mine about 15 years ago.

Who'd have thought it, eh?


I have pondered the scenario whether TELSTRA is being set up for a "foreign" takeover bid? Is it possible?

Got a phone call a few minutes ago - on my landline! It is now working. It was from the technician at the exchange. Faulty cables.

Originally Posted by goingbush

Your the perfect candidate for Starlink. Im tipping Prices will come down rapidly to match , or a little above what your paying now.
Terrestrial Telocs should be shaking in their boots . If you have Telstra shares I'd be dumping them about now.

I decided when the first tranche was offered that it was not a good investment. Not because everything was going wireless/satellite, but because they were valued on the basis of their being a monopoly, and that was clearly not going to continue.

However, while Starlink looks like it it would be perfect for me, it would still leave me with only a single option - which is the root cause of most of the problems with Telstra.

And I do not see the end of landlines for one simple reason.

There is a limited amount of electromagnetic spectrum, so that in any area there is a limit to how much data can be transferred using wireless mthods. Combine this with expeonential growth in demand for data, and there are limits to either data or customers. These are already apparent to most people trying to use wireless services (including satellite) at peak times. Fibre has effectively unlimited data capacity - there is no practical limit to the number of fibres that can be in one cable, and each of these can carry more data than the entire EM usable spectrum.

Originally Posted by JDNSW

Got a phone call a few minutes ago - on my landline! It is now working. It was from the technician at the exchange. Faulty cables.

Blimey John, that has to worth breaking out the bubbly for.

Originally Posted by goingbush

Unfortunately the skills aren't much use now, I got out just before the NBN took over , now nothing I learned over 30 years is really relevant , except for the few services left still running over copper.

Which is some ~70% of the NBN... The problem is most of the muppets they have working on it don't understand copper, water, joints or terminations. If the little magic doohickey they plug in doesn't give them the right numbers it's a referral to a copper-jockey. It seems they are getting rarer and more irate, so it's no-win really. I have a "number" of joints in the ~1km between me and the "node". After months of getting no action from the NBN I ended up putting on a hi-vis and re-making the joins on 4 of them myself. The home-brew TDR told me exactly which ones needed looking at.

Originally Posted by BradC

Which is some ~70% of the NBN... The problem is most of the muppets they have working on it don't understand copper, water, joints or terminations. If the little magic doohickey they plug in doesn't give them the right numbers it's a referral to a copper-jockey. It seems they are getting rarer and more irate, so it's no-win really. I have a "number" of joints in the ~1km between me and the "node". After months of getting no action from the NBN I ended up putting on a hi-vis and re-making the joins on 4 of them myself. The home-brew TDR told me exactly which ones needed looking at.

Thats what THEY need Brad, some competition. They've had it far too good over the years & are taking the ****.

Originally Posted by goingbush

Well that was for if anyone still had them, they along with NBN-Co and other terrestrial carriers are going to plummet , I missed the peak but dumped mine about 15 years ago.

If those "cross-bar" exchange relays were the best that the industry could come up with, then they deserve to be replaced!