I’m only with Telstra because I have to be… due to the nature of where I reside….only 1 bar and any other telco is nil reception.
I don’t get how… every frikkin year they made enormous profit yet they jack prices up!
Now I get a message my land phone/internet line is going up $5 a month to $85
Pathetic!
My monthly mobile was $54, then it snuck up to $58 then boom to $64 !

I cracked it and went into the store and changed it to $35 month pre paid.
Only difference is I can’t make overseas calls or if I go overseas it won’t be active.
But I have a phone that’s unlocked and I usually get a SIM card from post office for overseas use.
And I’m not going overseas anytime soon!
Now today I needed help with my Visa card… I went to buy something online and my card was fraud locked! Well I’m grad I’m being looked after but… I can’t use my card now!
So I called bank for help and first call was 15 mins wait time.
2 nd call half hour later was 12 min wait time…
I hang up again.
I later go into bank and they give me a proper number to ring and told me I could be waiting an hour for call answer.
I thought…. Wow…all the HUGE profits the bank makes and they can’t get enough employees to answer phone calls?
I felt slightly defeated as I was thinking good service isn’t what I remember it used to be.
I agree, the quality of service has dropped in every country and on all services. The push for profits and cost cutting leads them to direct me to voice recordings, option in them, redirect me to the internet pages... it is just crap now.
if you do get someone, they don't know how to handle the call because they are cheap, probably not in the country and have been poorly trained (and paid SFA so they don't care).