How Telstra makes us look like idiots on the world stage
Here’s a great article in The Age from last year showing a different perspective. In many Western countries, broadband is fast, cheap and unmetered. That means that there’s no shaping once you’ve hit your quota, or in Telstra’s case, ridiculously excessive overuse fees.
Telstra has held back this country’s communications infrastructure for years.
This article explains how.
Telstra’s Premium Rate Policy
We know we expose ourselves to a lot of pressure, harassment and danger to “fight the 1000 pounds Gorilla” - but sorry, bringing out the truth is our nature!
Now you won’t believe this:
Secrets about Telstra’s Premium SMS Policy
As you are aware, Telstra cashes in heaps for delivering premium SMS. Now that’s the way it works: [...]
Vision6 - BigW scam round 2
This information comes to us from reader ‘V’, alerting us to another Wixawin-like scam using BigW vouchers couched to appear as if originating from the respected supermarket.
The twist here is that you’re originally sent promos via email, making it look even more legit, but are really subscribed into a premium SMS service.
Here’s what V has [...]
Wixawin in the News
In an earlier post outlining our issues with the Wixawin campaign, our position was that they used misleading tactics (i.e. the Woolworth’s campaign) that presented their campaigns as authorised by the companies featured in their marketing.
Today Tonight had a piece on Wixawin last night, that highlighted this misleading marketing in addition to their poor customer [...]
