Its my business number
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Its my business number
Bugger That really sucks:eek:
Joys of home office :D . No point whining, just vote with my feet.
and you get charged extra for a Silent Number, $2.93 a month + GST with Telstra last time I looked ... probably gone up since then. A source of annoyance everytime I check my phone bill. :mad:
I personally can't see how they can justify charging an on-going fee for what is going to be just a byte of information in your record which will be set to either 1 or 0 depending upon your choice. Set and forget. When they are selecting info for the phone book they just have to filter on that flag.
When they are doing directory enquiries their software just has to go
if silent number flag = true
then
call "play silent number recording"
else
call "reading the number out loud program"
i.e. yet another rip off
Effectively I am being charged for their loss of revenue because scabby marketers can't look my number up in the phone book and hassle me.
If memory serves me right they don't even offer you a silent number when you set up a phone account ... you have to ask for it and then they sound all surprised and tell you about the charge trying to put you off.
end of rant!
On saturday I got Optus broadband, 200Mg download then throttle down to 28.8. This morning I got a love letter from Optus saying "you've reached 80% Mr Zed..."
it doesnt take long to chew through 200Mg these days!
on the plus side at least I dont get increased fees.
I may have to upgrade to the unlimited plan, it will be hard to go back to 64k...
Your lucky,
mine runs at 33.5k and thats on a good day !
what broadband, one day may be ?
ptc
They probably sell unlisted numbers as well to business organisations - they just dont make them available to the general public. Telemarketers also get the numbers from any number of organisations that youve given your contact details to ie: banks/councils etcQuote:
Originally Posted by MarkV
Well my 200mb ran out on Friday, so I had it for two weeks, woohoo! :rolleyes:
28.8 really sucks :(
Fortunately, I still have some time left on my old dialup plan so at least I've got 56k at the moment.
Next month I'll be watching it like a hawk.
Actually I did an experiment one night last week. I checked my usage on the web at work, then when I used the PC that night, I only went to this BB.
I spent 45 minutes online (I timed it). Next day I checked how much the visit to the board had cost and it was 5mb. It seemed a like a lot.
Craig