Tip for Telstra users!
Make sure you regularly call them and ask for any updated plans, I was on $69 with 40gb down load and after a long phone call my plan was changed to $69 with 60 gb down load. Cheeky buggers!

I've found they have automatically upgraded me on home internet and mobile plans in the past.

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Chris6791 said..
I've found they have automatically upgraded me on home internet and mobile plans in the past.

Really ? Not in the 10 years I have been with them on a mobile plan have had the occasional call when I wasn't looking at upgrading! Now I have 60gb to burn through in 14 days for this month.

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Chris6791 said..
I've found they have automatically upgraded me on home internet and mobile plans in the past.

Me too and that's partly why I stay with them. Very few companies reward loyalty but seems they do.

My internet a while back went from 100Gb to 200Gb for no reason, then a year later 400, then a couple years later unlimited. Every time they just told me I'd been upgraded for no cost.

Credit where its due.

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Mark _australia said..

Chris6791 said..
I've found they have automatically upgraded me on home internet and mobile plans in the past.

Me too and that's partly why I stay with them. Very few companies reward loyalty but seems they do.

My internet a while back went from 100Gb to 200Gb for no reason, then a year later 400, then a couple years later unlimited. Every time they just told me I'd been upgraded for no cost.

Credit where its due.

Must be different with land lines I have been mobile and off the grid for 10 years.

They cap your home internet?

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Mark _australia said..

Chris6791 said..
I've found they have automatically upgraded me on home internet and mobile plans in the past.

Me too and that's partly why I stay with them. Very few companies reward loyalty but seems they do.

My internet a while back went from 100Gb to 200Gb for no reason, then a year later 400, then a couple years later unlimited. Every time they just told me I'd been upgraded for no cost.

Credit where its due.

Maybe looked into your porn data use

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cauncy said..

Mark _australia said..

Chris6791 said..
I've found they have automatically upgraded me on home internet and mobile plans in the past.

Me too and that's partly why I stay with them. Very few companies reward loyalty but seems they do.

My internet a while back went from 100Gb to 200Gb for no reason, then a year later 400, then a couple years later unlimited. Every time they just told me I'd been upgraded for no cost.

Credit where its due.

Maybe looked into your porn data use

Sympathy upgrades?

Porn is overrated and boring lloved motley crew dirt! And the Rolling Stones in South America on Netflix

I asked about the unlimited data and included lube package

They said they stopped it after Caunce abused it too much.

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southace said..
Porn is overrated and boring lloved motley crew dirt! And the Rolling Stones in South America on Netflix

So watching 70 year old men acting like teenagers is what gives you a hard on??

You need psychiatric help.

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cisco said..

southace said..
Porn is overrated and boring lloved motley crew dirt! And the Rolling Stones in South America on Netflix

So watching 70 year old men acting like teenagers is what gives you a hard on??

You need psychiatric help.

Quoting stuff about hard ons would get you removed by modiators in the real world your lucky you get away with it here.
i have lived off the grid for 10 years now. I have not paid electricity bill or land line since I sold the house and went off grid , this is why I use mobile data.

This thread popped up at the very same time my "Tech savvy" son in law was on 'live chat' to TELSTRA. He had looked at our "bill" and was horrified, 5 devices (2 tablets, 2 phones and a 'dongle) with **** poor data allowance and over priced, plus extra data charges every month.

Now for $50 a month less, (guaranteed, no additional data charges) Wife has new phone and 150 gig per month, phone can be used for us to access both tablets, dongle data for my lap top/work increased by 25 gig per month (no extra cost), my new phone (wifes old one) on the cheapest of plans as I only use it for texts and calls.

Am I happy? Yes, but if not for SinL we would have just been carrying on as normal and paying for sub standard performance.

We don't really know if we're getting a good deal or great service as there's little competition with equal infrastructure to base it on
basically Telstra have it and us stitched up nicely compared to most other countries

Compared to most other countries?????

Australia is a "third world country" when it comes to internet speed and streaming capability.

Nobody downloads movies etc anymore do they?? Why bother if you can stream it??

I'm in Nepal at the moment if you want to talk about 3rd world Internet and phone...

weren't you there a year ago?

Oh yeah, I get it

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Chris6791 said..
I'm in Nepal at the moment if you want to talk about 3rd world Internet and phone...

On Telstra roaming

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Rupert said..
This thread popped up at the very same time my "Tech savvy" son in law was on 'live chat' to TELSTRA. He had looked at our "bill" and was horrified, 5 devices (2 tablets, 2 phones and a 'dongle) with **** poor data allowance and over priced, plus extra data charges every month.

Now for $50 a month less, (guaranteed, no additional data charges) Wife has new phone and 150 gig per month, phone can be used for us to access both tablets, dongle data for my lap top/work increased by 25 gig per month (no extra cost), my new phone (wifes old one) on the cheapest of plans as I only use it for texts and calls.

Am I happy? Yes, but if not for SinL we would have just been carrying on as normal and paying for sub standard performance.

Visited my elderly parents last Christmas. They pay $500/month for internet, 2x mobile phones, and 3x business numbers.

Telstra representative sold them the top-tier plan where they rent (yes, really) the very latest phones with maximum data and the like. Ditto the internet plan.

They use practically nothing, of course. "App Store? Where is that? I don't want to travel far. No, no I don't want email on my phone it will fill it up and make it slow."

I had to go across to the shop for a word with the guy.

Optus on the other hand sent me a monthly bill for -$0.01 for three years. They never corrected it.

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cauncy said..

Chris6791 said..
I'm in Nepal at the moment if you want to talk about 3rd world Internet and phone...

On Telstra roaming

Nope. Local NCell SIM card.

Mark that was two years ago :)

^^ and finally your seabreeze posts arrive!!!!

We got them 2 years ago, they only just made it to WA and Tassie.

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Mark _australia said..

Me too and that's partly why I stay with them. Very few companies reward loyalty but seems they do.
My internet a while back went from 100Gb to 200Gb for no reason, then a year later 400, then a couple years later unlimited. Every time they just told me I'd been upgraded for no cost.

Credit where its due.

I think they did that across the board for premium customers to combat NBN. It's kind of a loyalty reward, but also more aimed at not being caught out by you eventually checking your plan, realising you are way behind on service for $ and you getting peed off and ditching them for someone else.