Re: [LINK] NBN customers complain of unreliable home phone service

[JanW]

At 09:45 AM 26/02/2017, David Boxall wrote:
>>It is now quickly becoming apparent that it's no longer a simple task due to 
>>the mix of technologies and the need to have a nbn™ service to enable a VOIP 
>>service to be active.
> 

That appears to be a discussion around one provider, Skymesh. The other 
comments in the thread weren't at all my experience with Internode. Everything 
has been communicated, dates set, emails keeping me up to date on progress, and 
even got my new modem within a week. There's something to be said about a 
company that does what it says it will. Of course nothing is installed yet, so 
the jury is still out in that regard, but I hope Node's reputation for customer 
service continues in this NBN world.

I did have to pay to port my phone number over, around $30. I don't know if 
that is standard or not. What I'm not sure of is how the Telstra account itself 
should be handled. When do I cancel it? Or do I need to if the number is no 
longer with them? Anyone know? When I changed power companies, I got a final 
bill notice. Does the same happen in this space?

I can see that people who are renting and constantly moving could face 
problems. But changing utilities isn't a new idea. At least we now have fluid 
retail in most utility areas.

Jan


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Re: [LINK] NBN customers complain of unreliable home phone service

[David Boxall]

On 25/02/2017 2:37 PM, JanW wrote:

...
I signed up for a new NBN-distribution internet/voice service. During the process, I had 
to verbally agree NOT to enforce my CSG rights. Yep, if I wanted to buy any service from 
this company ::cough:: Internode ::cough:: I was required to give up rights for this 
supposed guarantee for voice communications. I did it of course because there really are 
no longer rights for voice service because of the information in this article. So 
companies are doing belts and braces to be sure you understand and AGREE to give up those 
"rights" that are no longer rights. I wonder what the ACCC thinks about this? 
Hey, Checkout, this is one for you!

Talk about Orwellian.
...
Telstra has been doing the same with NGWL (when they either don't 
provide a physical cable or allow the existing one to degrade beyond 
usability, then offer wireless instead) for some time.


If you're on NBN/VoIP, then you'd better not want to move:

... I think the nbn™ and the conversion from PSTN on copper to VOIP using the 
new technology has introduced a world of hurt for when people now want to 
transfer companies for VOIP or change addresses.

In the past it was a simple thing of ring up and either assigning a new company 
as you retailer on the same day without and loss of service or cancelling one 
service on a day and getting the new service up and running again on the same 
day.

It is now quickly becoming apparent that it's no longer a simple task due to 
the mix of technologies and the need to have a nbn™ service to enable a VOIP 
service to be active.



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[LINK] Bitcoin hits record high on talk of ETF approval

[Stephen Loosley]

“Bitcoin hits record high above $1,200 on talk of ETF approval”

By Jemima Kelly | Reuters LONDON  Feb 24, 2017
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-global-markets-bitcoin-idUSKBN16317V

Digital currency bitcoin jumped to a record high above $1,200 (US) on Friday, 
as investors speculated the first bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF) to be 
issued in the United States is set to receive regulatory approval.

Traditional financial players have largely shunned the web-based 
"crytpocurrency", viewing it as too volatile, complicated and risky, and 
doubting its inherent value.

But bitcoin, invented in 2008, performed better than any other currency in 
every year since 2010 apart from 2014, when it was the worst-performing 
currency, and has added almost a quarter to its value so far this year.

It soared to as high as $1,200 per bitcoin in early Asian trading on Europe's 
Bitstamp exchange before easing to about $1,190.

That put the total value of all bitcoins in circulation -- or the digital 
currency's "market cap", as it is known -- at close to $20 billion, around the 
same size as Iceland's economy.

Some analysts say regulatory approval of a bitcoin ETF would make the currency 
relatively attractive to the often more cautious institutional investor market.

But despite potentially high returns, low correlations with other currencies 
and assets, falling volatility and increasing liquidity, there is scant 
evidence so far that most major players are considering investing in the 
digital currency.

"Bitcoin is just not liquid enough for us to even think about," said Paul 
Lambert, fund manager and head of currency investment at Insight, in London.

"We manage billions and billions of dollars – we'd need to be able to go into 
that market and trade in hundreds of millions of dollars at a time, and my 
sense is it's not like that."

Three ETFs that track the value of bitcoin have been filed with the U.S. 
Securities and Exchange Commission for approval.

The SEC will decide by March 11 whether to approve one filed almost four years 
ago by investors Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss.  If approved, it would be the 
first bitcoin ETF issued and regulated by a U.S. entity.
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Stephen








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