Eligible pensioners with a Telstra home phone plan will also be able to make unlimited local, national and 13/1300 calls, and calls to Australian mobiles, from their home phone in Australia to make staying in touch with friends and family simpler. This is available from Thursday until the 30 June 2020.
Clearly you don’t understand Telstra’s involvement or relevance to the NBN (hint, it’s not their decision).
Anyway, technology evolves, did you really expect the entire country to keep paying to maintain old copper wires that the vast majority of the population wouldn’t be using (except for FTTN) just because some old people found the transition ‘confusing’? Very selfish way of thinking.
Should we also have horse water drinking buckets at car parks for those who don’t drive cars and still ride horses?
"hint, it’s not their decision"
…ummm… Telstra were the ones who agreed to handover/sell their copper assets to NBN and agreed to disconnect their PSTN subscribers; it has a lot to do with Telstra.
A huge amount of NBN connections are via FTTN copper; they could have co-existed.
You have no idea. The disconnecting of the landline, was part of the original plan, nothing to do with the sale of copper assets. Those with FTTP, also had their PSTN line disconnected after 18 months. This was occurring well before the copper was sold.
This was part of Kev07’s original plan, to force people onto the NBN so it would speed up acceptance and cover costs. PainToad is right.
A huge amount of NBN connections are via FTTN copper; they could have co-existed.
Co-existence on copper greatly reduces the speed of the already poor FTTN.
Unrelated to Telstra (although we've been with Telstra for 20 years) but our nbn installer put the box in the front master bedroom which makes it quite ugly and WiFi at the back of the house, where our bedrooms are, extremely slow and often disconnects. He said he was going to put it there because it was easier.
Usually cheaper to get cheap mobile plan with unlimited calls all the time!
Belong has unlimited local calls to land lines and mobile for $10/month. So yeah.
And that includes 1GB data.
Other companies have cheap plans.
eg $99/yr 15GB @Aldi Mobile
Certainly beats $25/mth + calls
I moved my elderly parents off the landline long ago. Requested Telstra to maintain the line for incoming & outgoing emergency calls FREE - for over a year. That dealt with their fear of missing calls to the old number.
Requested Telstra to maintain the line for incoming & outgoing emergency calls FREE - for over a year.
How did you do that ? Does Telstra offer Free diversion of Landlines to Mobiles for a year ?
@[Deactivated]: Like this Deal - it's only for Eligible Pensioners on Telstra Home Phone Plans.
Called Telstra to cancel land line for Parents & they asked if they wanted this free service for at least 1 year.
No diversion (that's a paid service!), just the line is active for incoming calls & outgoing emergency calls. Done before NBN was installed, so may no longer be available.
Amaysim provide the same on their SIMs. Just activated Free SIM in Deal last month - to keep mobile number number active for 1 year of incoming calls.
just as long as you are happy waiting months for any service queries
I admittedly never had to call them. Though in saying that was not aware of any issues the two belong simcard I have. One for my folks and one for me.
I've got responses within a day or less with Belong. Posting this with their service - no issues.
Mobiles are also more reliable than NBN fixed line connections.
Voting negative as cheaper and better options exist.
This is just a PSA for those already on a Telstra Home Phone Plan. It's not really an option to sign up for a new connection, just to get the included calls for a short time.
Included Telstra link & charges for comparison purposes.
Most would be better off on a much cheaper mobile plan.
But…
Some older people are reluctant to change! (My Father refused to use a mobile.)
Not everywhere has NBN.
Mobile coverage has its limits. (I complained when an ambulance was delayed because of problems understanding instructions due to poor reception at my location. Telstra told me I should use a landline in an emergency!)
And some have emergency equipment still connected to the copper landline.
Most pensioners can't afford Telstra.
and/or can't figure out the Filipina/Indian dialects of offshored call centre sweatshop workers
Pensioners are paid Telephone Allowance of $30 or $45, 4 times a year, if phone is in their name.
Better if they use a cheap mobile service - they make a profit!
Pensioners are paid Telephone Allowance of $30 or $45, 4 times a year
Apparently not age pensioners…
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/individuals/services/ce…
You're better off with a catch connect sim to avoid line rental. There are even old mimic telephones that can have a mobile sim inserted to make calls.
And once again there are multiple posts in this forum where the poster has automatically linked 'pensioner' with old age.
There are many people receiving a government 'pension' who are not old.
The offer seems to be for those people who need financial assistance; one way for Telstra to apply a qualification to their offer is to link it to the government services which assess who does and who does not need financial assistance.
In relation to age-related comments such as "Some older people are reluctant to change", or "can't figure out the Filipina/Indian dialects", I suppose there is some awareness that not all 'old' people are technology-illiterate? Even the inventor of the public internet is 64.
not all 'old' people are technology-illiterate
Who said all 'old' people are technology-illiterate?
That is what those comments would suggest the posters believe
Hearts of gold Telstra after they forced the same people into having to install a nbn modem even if they didn’t use internet and putting them through stress in the process.