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Telstra - 'Important Information About Your Home Phone' |
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As a user of a regular ADSL connection I have the pleasure of continuing to receive a monthly telephone bill from Telstra. With my February 2011 bill I received a nice letter from the Executive Director, Customer Service and Sales at Telstra informing me that from the 20th March 2011 'We will now bill all timed calls in one-minute blocks of time, which means that the charge for the call is automatically rounded up to the nearest minute.' |
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What does this really mean? Simple the consumer will pay more to receive the same service, even the Telstra CEO has been reported as saying that extra revenue would be 'modest' while other industry analysts have placed the cost of the change closer to a $100 million revenue increase per year.
Thanks Telstra - the value proposition of VoIP just got even better.
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5 years - IT Industry Snapshot |
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I began this article as an email to some industry friends to discuss but thought I'd share these observations with the wider community. Since I am no financial analyst you can take these thoughts with a pound of salt, but the comparisons are interesting none the less, and you can draw your own conclusions from the stock itself.
Many companies took a steep dive in recent months including Apple, Microsoft, Red Hat and Engin. The general trend however is the increasing value of stock of a 5 year period as the IT world recovers from the millennium slump of 2000 that saw the end to the world's largest IT bloom that inevitably ate its own tail with the y2k doomsday that never was. It's any wonder that faith was lost in the promises of the digital faithful from that point. |
Is the second bubble bursting? Or is it the right time to buy?
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Is Telstra's Homeline Ultimate Plan What it Seems? |
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No sooner does VoIP begin to permeate through to residential Australia, than Telstra ups it’s homeline budget plan from $18.50 to $19.95 and introduces new plans obviously aimed at the very consumers they recently lost or are about to lose to VoIP. Upon hearing about the new unlimited STD/Local calling plan, the first thought from us here at VoIPChoice was, “Look out the big boys are finally starting to have a go at VoIP!”. So in the interest of research we hit the Telstra website to see what was on offer from Australia’s leading telco. |
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VoIP is Not About Computers! |
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VoIP started as an industry buzzword to describe a bunch of protocols that allowed phone calls to terminate across an internet connection. On the face of it, not really exciting stuff for you and me. The reality however, is that VoIP is for everybody, not just the nerds to talk to each other via Skype or Google Talk. In fact, VoIP stands to benefit those of us whole like to use the phone, not chat on the internet! |  |
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The VoIP Revolution Will Not Be Televised |
 | Australian consumers have always been cautious ones. Internet uptake was slow on the upstart and it has taken many years for Australian’s to trust online credit card transactions or online business in general. In the past five years, netbanking has boomed in popularity across the country as Australians look to the future. It’s probably no co-incidence that this has coincided with broadband rollouts in the same time. In 2004-5 ABS statistics reveal that almost a third of all businesses do not use broadband because of perceived unavailability or lack of benefit. The tyranny of distance places extra responsibility on last (hundred) mile technologies and even now much of the POTS (plain old telephone system) lacks adequate quality of service for a stable dial up connection, let alone broadband. |
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