This week Telstra reported its one-millionth customer signed up to a broadband service.
Based on my experience, most of those will be customers of services bought from another company,
rather than directly from Telstra or one of its dealers.
Once we had shifted our home phone service back to Telstra, preparatory to choosing an ADSL service supplier
(which could easily have been Telstra), we were interested to get a call from someone offering us a free ADSL kit.
Initially I declined the offer, because, as eventually became clear, the only thing that was free about the offer, was the look you got at the
the contents of the box sent to you. I'd read about this scam on Whirlpool, so was awake to it.
EWven so, I was surprised that this Telstra dealer, calling itself the Broadband Centre, was making such a misleading offer.
But later on I figured that, what the heck, if they were willing to send us the modem and sign up disk and details etc,
I might as well accept the offer, even if I planned to send it straight back, because it would help me in figuring out
how to get my home network of 3 PCs set up with a wireless ADSL service.
That was my mistake. More tomorrow.
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