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Grrrrrrrrrrr! Finding out the selling of plans does not match the reality.

'Hello, id like you to register my countriesof contact please. New zealand, great britain and norrh america. Thankyou........ what do you mean? I have to pay for it? I already pay for it in my plan.i hust havent utilized it. .....what do you mean the "free" 200 mins of call time is just for connectionto another countries phone number? Im not ringing a bloody operator to see what theyre doung for christmas!!!!!......(calm down megs )..... okay so its pay as you go? Right!.... what do you mean i have to pay another 15 to 30 dollars to do it? Its already incorporated in my costs! Hence the 200 mins talk time!!!!! What do you mean its only to landlines?

@%#:#@%`$€£¥â‚¬¤$¥@%#:).. ...... why am i payibg for this already when it turns out im paying for **** .all?

Oh but you guys can ring me apparently! But ive been herw before and its not always permissable to my phone!

I dislike the phone companies, cable companies, electric companies, any company that has a monopoly on their public services!

cars;1503699 wrote: I dislike the phone companies, cable companies, electric companies, any company that has a monopoly on their public services!
So do I, unfortunately I work for a major Cable/Dish company. It amazes me all the time how important TV is to people and how they can't live without it.

cars;1503699 wrote: I dislike the phone companies, cable companies, electric companies, any company that has a monopoly on their public services!


Frustrating, isn't it. Any ideas on a workable solution?

Ahso!;1503708 wrote: Frustrating, isn't it. Any ideas on a workable solution?


Unfortunately without "competition" from other companies, there is no way to combat monopoly companies. (Except if one chooses to suffer, and to just do without that service)

cars;1503737 wrote: Unfortunately without "competition" from other companies, there is no way to combat monopoly companies. (Except if one chooses to suffer, and to just do without that service)I agree. As I understand the problem, it's mainly an issue of infrastructure. How many electric companies can one locale's natural resources support? The entire coastal areas would be lined with electric company power plants, which would not only cause an increase in air and water pollution, but a huge shortage in water for the community, because electric plants require a lot of water. Not to mention how the companies would acquire the land along the coast if the landowners didn't want to give up living there. Eminent domain, perhaps?

Then there's the issue of how many electric, gas, cable companies etc. one would want ripping up their property to install the cables lines, wires and what have you. And then how would they tap into the existing infrastructure? And also, who's financially liable for all that work to be done?

As it is now, I can hardly stick a stake in my yard without potentially piercing something.

Difficult issues to overcome, and I've barely scratched the surface.

I'm proud to work for Utilita Energy. Not only are we the leading Prepayment Providers in the country, but we're also the cheapest. The whole company is based on Socialist principles. We are one of the few companies that doesn't tie anyone to contracts, impose any switching penalties, standing charges, or multiple tarriffs (commonly used to try to hide what you're really paying). We don't advertise, per se (apart from door to door, telesales & shopping centre marketing events) - all advertising is done by Word of Mouth. We make it really easy for anyone to leave our supply, but we find that most people want to stay with us.

Multiple tarriffs and standing charges are not set by the retailer but by txfhe energy provider. So what youre saying is correct. Wow you really have to be bamboozed yourself before you can sell it.

cars;1503737 wrote: Unfortunately without "competition" from other compn

anies, there is no way to combat monopoly companies. (Except if one chooses to suffer, and to just do without that service)


What monopolys? We have so many different retailers these days its too stupid for words. Would be interesting to search back through companies though to see the one entity who owns all the 'spoilt for choice illusion' of retailers

magentaflame;1503831 wrote: Multiple tarriffs and standing charges are not set by the retailer but by txfhe energy provider. So what youre saying is correct. Wow you really have to be bamboozed yourself before you can sell it.
We are the Energy Provider / Retailer. We only have the one tarriff - or 2, if you count the slightly higher Premium Rate (Credit Payments) one, which is not a regular rate with us, as we specialise in Prepay. You look at all the others & you see all sorts of fixed terms, over varying numbers of years, variables, premiums - whatever. The National Grid is essentially the wholesaler. The Providers are the Retailers. We buy it of them & decide our own tarriffs. With us it's based on smaller profit per capita, but with a much larger customer base. There is no need for all the minefield of tarriffs except to hide what it is you're really paying.

This is another one for you.

Bloody hilarious actually if it wasnt so frustrating.

My sister has been trying to get a landline to her house (she lives in the burbs btw, not in a rural area like myself)

She was told it ciuldnt be done because the house is solid concrete etc.

She went to the ombudsman and then things began to progress. Montgs and months of negotiations.

Finally she and her partner are allotted a telstra case worker. They think finally things will progress.

One morning recently they were told that that their connection would have to be overhead wire, and not undergriund. Thats all very well at least somethings happening.........but they cant garantee the jib could be done within the next six months. They dont have a problem with this because they are given a free mobile phone to tied them over for the time being.

So.... after this phone call they went shopping.

On their arrival home they find their gates open and men digging up their front garden. When asked why they were there and shouldnt it be wise to inform them of their presence ....... and wheres the dog ? (Considering the gates open, they didnt even check for a dog) and isnt it weird theyd be digging up a garden for an overhead wire?

They take their shopping inside and recieve another phone call from their case manager........ oh dear god!

Their case manager wants to know if they are happy with the previos information and theyll get a phone call before work commences.

Holding back incredulas laughter they just said. " okay, whatever you can manage."