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[Adam Todd]

At 08:45 20/08/2008, you wrote:

>On 20/08/2008, at 4:38 PM, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
> > The Company announces that its subsidiary, Hutchison 3G Australia, has
> > entered into an agreement with Telstra Corporation Limited to extend
> > its
> > current roaming agreement to include 3G roaming on parts of Telstra's
> > 850MHz network which will be available from the second quarter next
> > year,
> > and to lower roaming charges from September 2008.
>
>Does anyone know what those roaming charges are, by the way?

Yep, $1.30 per megabyte for Data and call charges are in fact the 
same as your rate plan anyway.

Even roaming I still get my 30 cent flat rate 10 min landline calls 
throughout Australia.  And I get my 300 mins of FREE 3 to 3 calls in 
ten min chucks too.

Calls to mobiles or other services vary, but in reality are the same 
as your 'non roaming' charges. So I don't really care much.  I think 
it's the DATA aspect that is being clued at more than anything else.

When out of 3's 3G area, you have to switch to Telstra for coverage.

At $89 a month for 1 GB from Telstra -vs- $20 a month for 3GB from 3, 
you can see that it's all very unbalanced.

Mind you, we've been in many a rural area, using Telstra SIM and not 
being able to make a single phone call, or receive voice calls, yet 
we can enjoy high speed broadband acess without batting an eye.

Sadly SKYPE, although it works, consumes much data at at 1GB a month 
for $89, makes for VERY EXPENSIVE phone calls.

3, again, is cheap, with 4000 mins of free SKYPE TO SKYPE calls 
included in your monthly Data Pack.

I've never been able to use even 500 mins of SKYPE TO SKYPE, and have 
rarely ever used all my 3 to 3 Free calls.  I have only on occasion 
exceeded my Monthly included Credit allowance.

However looking at the bill each month, and the number of calls made, 
one has to wonder why ANYONE would every be with Telstra cause the 
difference is logarithmic.


>///and I won't ask what 'parts of Telstras [sic] 850MHz network'
>really means...

Hehehe, I suspect the Data Streams :)