Never have I seen such a collection of uninformed, biased and factually incorrect comments based purely on the perceived bias that Telstra couldn’t possibly bring out something tht works and works well.

Seriously… Telstra bringing out something that works? Where the hell have you been for the past few decades?

But, of course, this would require a few of you to pull your heads out of your bums and do some work to find a plan that suits your needs.

Hmm… well let’s have a look at those plans,

$99 a month for 25gb

$109 a month for 25gb with unlimited local calls.

$139 a month for 100gb.

$159 a month for $200gb.

Oh and then there’s the movie rental charges too. So in a nutshell I have to take out a second mortgage to use Bigpond internet with my crappy Tbox.

Or I could just buy a USB enabled $50 standalone divx player, save a bucketload in internet fees and watch whatever I want virtually on demand.

Telstra’s TBox might be ok but the plans they bundle it with are overpriced rendering them utterly useles. In other words they don’t work.

I also have a Tivo and this is quite comparable in performance with extra internet channels and is reasonably priced on the riight plan. But, of course, this would require a few of you to pull your heads out of your bums and do some work to find a plan that suits your needs.

If you do the work you will be very pleased with the value for money this offers compared to other pvr’S WITH CRAPPY INTERFACES.

Telstra doesn’t have demand for their ADSL2+ services because they are ridiculously overpriceed.

They should stop advertising how many megabits a second their network is and just start measuring it in terms of how many dollars per second fly out of your wallet when using the service.

Much more accurate.

LOL, a fellow ripped off BigPond cabler! I remember the first plan I was on: 500MB/month + 35cents/MB if you go over!

Strangely enough despite the piddly data allowances they gave us I remember back then their biggest selling point was the speed!

Won’t this new service collide with Foxtel?
(Telstra has a 50% stake in that service.)

From what I’ve read Telstra claims the two services are designed to be complimentary of eachother. Everyone else thinks the T-box is a backup plan incase they have to sell off their share in Foxtel to get a slice of the National Broadband Network.

As for Telstra, what do you expect? Big, slow, and completely lacking in innovation.

Won’t this new service collide with Foxtel?
(Telstra has a 50% stake in that service.)

As you point out it seems most of Telstra’s internet service offerings would benefit from increased speed, yet there’s no demand for it?

I can’t help but think Thodey is confusing lack of demand for Telstra’s products with lack of demand for increased internet speeds.

If Telstra keep solely targeting lazy people with too much money (how does one get into this demographic anyway?), then you’ve got to wonder how much longer they’re going to remain profitable.

Surely there’s not that many lazy and rich people in Australia to run a national business off?