https://www.thepoint.com/campaigns/fauc

Please join! If anything it will send pressure to the major telecom companies to lower their prices.

WOW! Until this call I was definitely going to buy an iPhone tomorrow, then I started to google plans and found this article now I am definitely going to sit back and wait.

And who would have thought that you would get that sort of honest advise from an Aussie telco?

I tend to agree re our rolling over on this one. Much better deals in Canada has folks fuming, and tens of thousands of signatures on petitions. Here, we kind of “meh”.

My take is this.

Sign up tomorrow for a two year plan, and keep in mind when these plans come down, you are stuck for two years on whatever craptacular plan you purchase. I simply can’t see why folks would do this.

The problem is the lack of “big thinkers” at Australian companies. Australians and now apparently Kiwi’s have no ideas about “long term” business sense.

It’s been pointed out elsewhere here that Optus and others routinely offer GB plans on their laptop dongles. So clearly they have the bandwidth available.

You Aussies don’t know how badly these telcos are damaging your economy with this shortterm thinking and data gouging. The use of the Internet in Oz is 10 years behind Asia, the US, and Europe due to the data gouging. You’re all talking about buying iPhones, which are designed to improve your productivity. And then you’re hooking them up to telcos that are inhibiting your productivity by sticking you on absurdly low data plans, all why you’re groveling to be first to “kiss the ring” on the hand of Optus or Virgin or Hellstra. And I’m sure Australia will be the only country to require a widget to constantly display data usage, while one can see the crybabies on “Today Tonight” already with their $3000 phone bills because “they didn’t know how much 700 mb is”.

At least the Kiwi’s are angry about getting screwed. For that they’re one up on Australia.