> On 23 May 2018, at 10:49 am, Bradley Amm <[email protected]> wrote: > > It would be great if we could “roam” between all networks or a company comes > up with a product that can roam between all networks
I just moved back from the USA to Australia and still have my T-Mobile sim in one of the phones, happily roams on all the networks! (As do most roaming SIMs). Google with their Project Fi have that across at least Sprint and T-Mo in the USA (yes, soon to be one network). Summary - get a non-Australian SIM that has some reasonable roaming rates and that’s what you get. (Maybe get a Voda NZ sim? Dunno what the rates are) The only reason you can’t is commercial - if you could run your own HLR and negotiate the agreements with the 3 (soon 4) carriers here you’d be able to do it. They’re just not interested in enabling that. MMC > > <> > From: AusNOG [mailto:[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>] On Behalf Of Brenden Cruikshank > Sent: Wednesday, 23 May 2018 6:37 AM > To: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Telstra mobile issues again? > > I’m on a personal Telstra plan with an iPhone 8 Plus. It’s my choice to use > Telstra because I’m either on call or backup to the oncall and I selected > Telstra due to its “premium” mobile network. It’s not just coverage but > actually reliable data speeds. > > Throughout the Telstra outage my phone never went SOS only, does this mean my > phone wouldn’t have been able to fail over to another network for 000 / > 112??? I was unable to make outbound calls and my incoming calls all went to > voicemail. My guess is I would be unable to call 000/112 and in an emergency > hopefully someone is on another carrier > > This happened just outside my office building yesterday, if Telstra was out > on Tuesday instead of Monday what’s your chances? Would the Telstra outage > have affected emergency services once they arrived?? > > https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/woman-seriously-injured-after-being-hit-by-bus-in-brisbane-cbd-20180522-p4zgo5.html > > <https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/woman-seriously-injured-after-being-hit-by-bus-in-brisbane-cbd-20180522-p4zgo5.html> > > > Telstra seems to publicly dismiss its outages as minor or “affected a small > number of users” meanwhile people are mentioning it nation wide. The outages > have been higher then usual over the last 6 months but I’ve got 18 months > left on my contact. > > At work we use an Optus evolve service and have 1-3 fixed voice or data > outages on a good month lasting 30-90 mins to half a day or longer. Business > is in contract until 2020, it’s now just accepted as a normal thing and > phones are too hard so “thinking about what to do about it” isn’t as simple > as that. (We did get a second internet service so I guess we did think about > it on the data side). > > On the other hand we have a legacy Telstra frame relay service, it’s had 100% > uptime for as long as I can remember. Old technology just seems so much more > reliable. > > Tonight I’m picking up a Amaysim to use as a backup on their $10/mo plan. > It’s cheap and what Telstra recommends I don’t do! > https://www.itnews.com.au/news/telstra-warns-users-off-cheap-sims-491236 > <https://www.itnews.com.au/news/telstra-warns-users-off-cheap-sims-491236> > > And 4G was unavailable this morning at Central station in Brisbane with > minimal to no 3G data throughput. Thanks Telstra. > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On 22 May 2018, at 11:11 pm, Joshua D'Alton <[email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > >> If a business, regardless of size, isn't looking at these Telstra outages >> (or any of their provider outages really) and getting the ball rolling on >> what to do about it..... well, not good. >> >> The smallest business has the ability, even if not the >> intelligence/motivation/smarts/etc, to evaluate what they rely on and the >> level of continuity they require. Literally even just reading this thread >> should be enough to raise the appropriate questions, such as "why do you >> think something like "they pay for a service. It probably isn't the >> cheapest, but they pay for it anyhow because the name brings an element of >> trust" means zero downtime?" >> >> >> It is interesting that there has been a shift between services you could >> totally rely on (say Telstra in the 90s), to those you can't even with a >> tight SLA (Telstra now..), but the reality is those considering a >> bulletproof system in the 90s still had a backup incase of a Telstra outage. >> >> But back to the OP, Telstra dropping 000 should be hounded like no tomorrow. >> People think power gas is essential services, but 000 is actually essential. >> Is anyone monitoring the ACMA or whoever responses to these events and the >> lapsing of SLAs? >> >> On 22 May 2018 at 22:22, Karen Hargreave <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> Ok, devils advocate side to the rant.. >>> >>> Firstly, let me say that I am not against your idea in the sense that there >>> is definitely a need for small businesses to be more agile. >>> >>> Ok, that said. Yes, one could think that a small business could be more >>> agile, but then, they pay for a service. It probably isn't the cheapest, >>> but they pay for it anyhow because the name brings an element of trust. >>> Small businesses generally don't have the ability to reach into a draw and >>> pick up a sim from another provider just to keep them on the air. Even if >>> they can, how do they tell their customers of a phone number change? Who do >>> they tell? Yes, a solution could involve other types of voice services to >>> be contacted on, but then there is the question, if part of what they are >>> paying for is trust in the brand, then well... you know where I am going. >>> >>> Oh, and food for thought, almost literally... try working at a food >>> delivery place when the competitor has no eftpos... yes, they do lose >>> money :) and customers :) >>> >>> Sent from my iPad >>> >>> On 22 May 2018, at 9:49 pm, Jason Leschnik <[email protected] >>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>> >>>> The Media and the Public's response to this is a little disheartening. >>>> Before I got into the world of networking I'd be part of the masses on >>>> WhingePool ragging on the ISPs. The more I see behind the curtain of the >>>> industry I sympathise that the problems we face are large and complex. >>>> Most people struggle to perform simple "adult" functions but yet believe >>>> that a large insanely complex organisation with many moving parts isn't >>>> just as potentially flawed is baffling. So many comments on Twitter with >>>> business owners blaming Telstra for their "insane financial loss" due to >>>> the outage but in saying that, isn't their lack of BCP nothing more than >>>> the same thing Telstra saw if not worse? A small company is much more >>>> agile to create a simple BCP for events like this. >>>> >>>> /Rant >>>> >>>> On 21 May 2018 at 10:37, Ross Wheeler <[email protected] >>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> I'm seeing (mobile) services - voice and data - down or intermittent in >>>>> multiple areas for the last 40 minutes or so. >>>>> >>>>> Can't find anything mentioned about it - am I just lucky enough to have a >>>>> significant proportion of my telstra services go titsup all together, or >>>>> is there some wider issue? >>>>> >>>>> (None of my services with other carriers seem affected at this stage). >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> AusNOG mailing list >>>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>>> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >>>>> <http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> AusNOG mailing list >>>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>>> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >>>> <http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> AusNOG mailing list >>> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >>> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >>> <http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> AusNOG mailing list >> [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> >> http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog >> <http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog>_______________________________________________ > AusNOG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog
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