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Vivity8/7/2007
6 yrs ago

 I saw Abby is having trouble after having NBN installed.

this may help with the problem and it is what I will do if/when NBN is installed.

My daughter a web designer and my son a photographer both use their  IPhones as a "hotspot" when uploading or downloading large files. Using 4G they can achieve in seconds or minutes what would take a long time on the current available landline  technology. Obviously a large data Gig on their phone plan is necessary but time saved with  no frustration is enormous. 

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Yes the future is mobile . 

I use Optus home broadband which uses 4g .

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Vivity8/7/2007
6 yrs ago

What modem do you use Brocky? Are you using a landline to connect or purely a dongle?

Neither Viv Optus supply box . It is 70 bucks for 100 gigs a month 4g plus.

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Vivity8/7/2007
6 yrs ago

Thanks Brocky I have a box on my back to base Security System so it works of the off the Satellite System rather than phone lines so I presume it is the same idea. 

It just uses the 4g network but no sim required .

It is.not mobile but restricted to one base . But you can change

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Attila
6 yrs ago

LOL

 

Is it any wonder Australia's internet is sooooo slow? Hapless National Broadband Network employees filmed installing twisted cables during $49 billion roll-out

NBN workers have been caught on camera poorly attempting to install fibre cables down a manhole on a Hobart street. The cables appear to be heavily twisted as they are being manually installed by the workers after breaking the broom head the wires were coiled around

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Attila
6 yrs ago

      Image result for humour

haha, that's a good one Attila!

Now back to work I go. Have a good arvo.

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PlanB
6 yrs ago

The NBN is a nightmare -- they have gone back to the dark ages with it -- and if you have a blackout you don't have phone OR internet

always keep your mobile (charged)

then you have a phone, internset and torch light all in one

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PlanB
6 yrs ago

 

Thats all very well Raphael -- but what about the aged people who do not have a mobile amd have to have a land line to hear properly AND for medical purposes -- also IF you have a blackout -- you have NO landline NO internet --and how are you supposed to keep your mobile charged if the power is out for days like it ofter is --- when I asked NBN about this they had NO answers --- plus Raphael --- I have a flip phone with  NO data --- many others do not have a mobile at all

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HOLA
6 yrs ago

Plan B -  Thank goodness, I have a flip phone as well. When I went to see my Solicitor and had to take a call he joked with me and said"That's an old looking phone, I said " I've only had it 6 months as I don't want a phone with all that data I don't need". 

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PlanB
6 yrs ago

HOLA I have had mine for over  6years and it has been wonderful still going strong -- and not as touchy as those   "smart"   phones and I will not be paying out for some phone I do not need when mine is still working.

 

However HOLA what I stated above is true and this Governement have NOT addressed the propblem that many people are going to have with this NEW well outdated NBN

I will hang onto my flip phone but I must say I do like my little Samsung Ji 16....it is so much easier texting.  It was driving me mad pressing one for A, two for B etc.

Mostly use text these days in lieu of making phone calls.   I have prepaid and I am going to get long life data for $50 for 365 days.  I have no cause to use data when I am out and about but on the odd occasion I may need it.  You only get 5g for the $50 and it last all year and you can roll over any unused credit.  This is Telstra.

Not a phone person at all so it will suit me.

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PlanB
6 yrs ago

Thanks Radish ALL info is good to know

Telstra has issued an apology and confirmed an investigation is now under way after an elderly client died when she was unable to contact anyone via the NBN following a fall down her back stairs in Peak Hill, NSW.

Great grandmother Merl Roberts made the switch to a new NBN Telstra phone with resulting trouble with her phone. Despite Telstra telling Roberts one of its technicians would visit her home three times, no one ever showed up. She had an Oricom emergency bracelet set up, and linked to her landline, after her history of heart problems and lung complaints. Because the landline didn’t work she couldn’t call for help and the device was useless.

Her son said, “It’s frustrating that we live in a society and we can’t get a phone fixed within three weeks for a 75-year-old lady.”

https://thewest.com.au/news/australia/family-frustrated-by-no-phone-signal-for-great-grandmother-before-her-death-ng-b88561054z

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