For the past two weeks Telstra has been doing a upgrade in Fyshwick ( industrial area ACT ) . Every day they have been switching off telephony and internet from 8am to 6pm. Why would they not do this at night when their customers are not as badly effected. So What about the Brothels lol they get walk in customers.

Why would they not do this at night when their customers are not as badly effected.

Because it is Telstra.

Nothing that Telstra does surprises me.

Ahh Yes! Profit before people. Mobile still connects 3G (sometimes) to Beechworth 40Km from me. More dropouts then a high school.
Never had a phone book delivered in over 30 years.

Why would you advertise in Yellow Pages if knowone sees them?

Marc

On 2GB yesterday arvo they were talking about the three major mobile carriers and how they stall, obfuscate, delay, give customers the royal run-around, deny anything is wrong and in some cases they even push their customers on to other carriers simply because they no longer care about a long-standing issue.

Right across Sydney there are mobile blackspots. I put up with the Telstra one in the suburb I live in because I am too patient and the issue intermittent to stress out about. Some people are worse off though. At St Albans (along the Hawkesbury River there is a blackspot that no carrier is interested in patching and one resident went ahead with the expense of installing a Starlink satellite system to connect to the Internet. Cost for the gear and professional installation - $6,000.00. Monthly data allowance costs $175.00 or thereabouts.

Some may ask why he did not just get a satellite connection on the NBNCo Skymuster system. That is anyone's guess but it may be that NBNCo doesn't consider Sydney's outskirts as a remote area, thus making this bloke ineligible.

Now, does Starlink provide mobile coverage? No, it does not. It allows a compatible mobile phone to make calls through a standard WIFI connection though. But this means no SMS service.

This is a hell of a lot of money to send on what is an unalienable right in the 21st century - to simply be able to communicate. A century ago, when the Commonwealth Government had just taken over telecommunications from the states they were practically begging people to connect even though operator-assisted calls and phones that could only make and receive voice calls was all that was available back then. As time went on and trunk cabling spread right out across this wide brown land, a larger percentage of people, it seems, could connect to that than a modern mobile phone network.

This is a national disgrace.

Don't worry guys. Today is a public holiday so I'm thinking the telstra guys wont be coming to work in order to cut us off but tomorrow will be service ( or lack of it )as normal. Sheesh

Yep! $Billions spent on mobile phone and I can't ring the neighbours on it reiablly as it conects ( sometimes ) to a tower 40Km away 3G only. Nats were talking Black spot funding & other devices on ABC today.

Still have not worked out that Blackspot funding is a racket supporting Telstra to just make money by avoiding putting towers in low revenue areas like hardly sparse rural areas.

We do need to take Communications back to Nationalised to provide service & cut costs.

Ah yes. Telecom as a self-serving Government monopoly.
Those were the days.

Funny how we only remember the good stuff, not the waiting 12 months or more to get a phone connected, the gross incompetence and laziness of some of the staff (who knew they couldn't be sacked) and the fact that to get anything done you had to know someone high up who knew who to lean on to make it happen.

I actually had the foreman of an installation team say to me "You know someone high up in Telecom, don't you?" We did, as it turned out.