Author Archives: The Elite Geek

It’s not too often I get threats from people / businesses threatening to sue me for defamation, though, I have got 3 threats in the last year. OzVoIP.com – They didn’t like the domain name I chose (with having no … Continue reading →

It was previously quoted in the media by an Optus spokesperson that the retail prices for OPEL provided services would be metro comparable, and the price attached to that metro comparable was $35 to $60 per month. Recently, another news … Continue reading →

Accounting software n00bs, 2clix lodged a Statement of Claim in the Brisbane Supreme Court claiming that the owner of the magnificent Whirlpool, Simon Wright, has caused them injurous falsehood by not following demands to remove content on the website that … Continue reading →

Telstra with nothing better to do (its not like there are 18% of all phone lines having faults that need repair) have decided that putting Coonan on trial for OPEL wasn’t enough. The OPEL case is more and more looking … Continue reading →

The federal government has decided it will sign a funding agreement with OPEL for $958 million dollars, showing the public that Telstra’s legal action is vexatious and unwarranted. The OPEL funding agreement hands $958 million to an Australian company, OPEL, … Continue reading →

Dodo, obviously failing to learn from its failure in the dial-up and broadband game with reports of poor speeds on broadband services, and very poor customer service have now decided that screwing city people and pissing them off is not … Continue reading →

Yesterday I wrote about how I had an experience on eBay of the unintelligent kind, where the sellers of all the items purchased all made stuff ups! Seller 1 had decided to forget rails for a rackmount server. Seller 2 … Continue reading →

Unwired provides internet access services over its own wireless networks. Engin provides VoIP – Telephone services over the internet. Seven provides Television, in what can be described as slow play from the US. Seven bought a large stake in Engin … Continue reading →

are the names of the likely pariticipants in the bidding process for a new FTTN network. I believe only one will emerge as the eventual winner, unfortunately. Unless the Taskforce take note of Deutsche Telekom’s idea of a public / … Continue reading →

In news you won’t find on Telstra’s own Now We Are Talking website (why is that? Can’t take the good with the bad?), If you don’t use Telstra for your STD calls, it may very soon cost you more. Telstra … Continue reading →

A Topic I discovered recently, is the topic of Broadband and Telecommunications (and the future of it) becoming a voting issue. The possibilities at this point in time are endless, both sides are fighting for your vote, and both will … Continue reading →

In what is still doing better than Telstra’s NextG, Virgin’s HSDPA Network experienced an outage lasting a total of 5 hours. Telstra’s NextG network had network issues spanning 3 days, with one of those days experiencing a total failure. Whilst … Continue reading →

Just when you thought we had one evil company holding Australia’s telecommunication freedoms to ransom, another company is planning to join the arena of denying users freedom. Amazingly however, Telstra’s Bigpond ISP has been mentioned in the media as not … Continue reading →

Continued from yesterday, moving through to Page 9 of the mammoth PDF that is Telstra’s trash about why the ACCC shouldn’t accept the G9 proposal, we see more invalid rubbish from the rubbish that wrote it, Telstra. 1. It does … Continue reading →

It’s not really new news, any idiot could have guessed that Telstra would not like G9’s proposal at all. Would you like the idea of someone else coming along, and being able to pay you a fair price for access … Continue reading →

Recently, Labor Member, Regional Development Minister for NSW, Tony Kelly can be echoed in the media as stating that the voters should decide on broadband. Mr Kelly believes that OPEL could leave Regional and Rural broadband users with “second rate … Continue reading →

Optus has had great success with the fusion phone and internet bundles that it has decided to revamp the rest of its product line up. As early as the start of next month, the current Optus plan line up will … Continue reading →

Telstra’s attempt at delaying the OPEL rollout is one which will fail. Some considerations need to be placed to decide just how far Telstra are going to try and go, to stop any form of regional broadband investment. Consideration 1: … Continue reading →

Telstra is the real cause of children not being able to access the resources they might be able to over the internet to further their own education. Telstra’s broadband plans are far from giving users the freedom to access the … Continue reading →

At a consumer level, there’s little in the way of pricing structure of a service. Recently on Telstra’s Now We Are Talking site, Leanne made comments that iiNet get her service for $3.20 and charge her $xx.xx for it. This … Continue reading →

The two words I can think to sum up the arguments frrom Telstra, Labor, Optus and our current government to be somewhat of a bitchfight. We see Telstra slamming any moves by our government to introduce competitive, lower priced broadband … Continue reading →

Today in the mail I received an invite to a forum conducted by the Labor party, faking an interest in Central Coast broadband services. They state that the new network would be 40 times faster than current speeds.. So, 40 … Continue reading →