Comments on: Telstra Wins the War

By: Rosie

Rosie — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 06:57:57 +0000

Ugh, the curse of modern technology. I have a mobile, it is the number work and my mum and sibs call me on. The kids text me.

I remember the days before mobile phones, and I rather miss them.

We also have a landline. I ring friends for a good long natter (maybe once every 6 months). I ring the kids for a catch up. Ditto Mum. I will never get rid of it, my husband has health issues, and him being able to call me/the doctor, and articulate what the problem is is very important.

If it rings, my heartrate goes up. Is it an emergency, or (as it mostly is) a telemarketer?

By: Benita

Benita — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 06:48:20 +0000

Once upon a time, the telephone, not unlike the television and the motor vehicle, was a novelty. You never used it to ring your neighbour; you just hollered over the fence if you needed something. On a Sunday night, mum would announce that she was ringing Grandma, and we’d all stand around the phone and bellow down the receiver at poor Grandma. It was a treat, a special occasion when you got to talk to someone on the phone. And that wasn’t a bad thing. Nowadays, we all have mobiles. We can contact people – and they can contact us – literally at all hours of the day and night. There’s no novelty to a chat anymore. Hell – even chatting is a thing of the past. Texting is cheaper, quicker, and not as personal. Great for ending a relationship. So as well as telecommunications giants selling us the idea that we need phones in our pockets at every moment of the day and night, they are now cashing in on our newfound inability to function without our ear pressed up against a phone, and charging us accordingly.

Is the convenience of modern technology really a good thing?

By: wisdomofsam

wisdomofsam — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 21:40:57 +0000

We hardly ever use the landline and if it rings, more often than not we screen because it’s usually the in-laws or telemarketers. If people want us, they should know our mobiles. Unless of course it’s Gold Lotto. Am so close to disconnecting hoome phone but can’t go there just yet. Even though it would save me over $400 a year. Stupid me I guess.

By: gigdiary

gigdiary — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 15:36:15 +0000

Sft0…err, yeah, that’s what land lines used to be…talk all day…

By: 5ft0

5ft0 — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 23:17:35 +0000

I use the landline phone every now and again. It’s really cheap. You can talk for hours without thinking, “Shit, I’m running out of credit!”

By: fender4eva

fender4eva — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:34:38 +0000

We still have a landline, but we get a pensioners discount,so we’ve hung on to it. There a a few, very few advantages, to being a mature person…………..

By: Angela

Angela — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 13:19:24 +0000

Hi Gig!!

I have a landline and I use it all the time, although it is a cordless. I pay a monthly fee and get my local calls free (apart from the fact that I pay for them in my monthly bill). I am forever rousing on Andy for ringing his mates on his mobile when he could ring their home phone from our home phone for free (apart from that monthly fee of course).
This may be due to the fact that my Mother is Scottish

By: wollywally

wollywally — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 03:18:51 +0000

I have a small business from home, and telstra at the moment has a bundle ,internet + phone , the most expensive papagkage $118 that would suit me beautifully. that would be half of what I pay at the moment monthly, the problems is because we are a business we re not eligible, in order to be so, we have to change to residential, that’s would create another set of problems, it seems we are one or another, and not in between, and like us there are lots of small business run from home that keep the economy going, it would help a lot during this economic crises if telstra would give us a brake and considering give the same package to small business as well, love ooxx