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GravityLord 3d ago

Piracy is MORALLY JUSTIFIED after Telstra Locked Customer Purchases Behind New Hardware

https://peertube.gravitywell.xyz/w/6tdHHzhRKtEoLsrqLqojFJ

Piracy is MORALLY JUSTIFIED after Telstra Locked Customer Purchases Behind New Hardware

PeerTube

ajft [SEC=&8212;haha]Jan 31

Having found a (locked) #Telstra mobile phone and being unable to find any owner contact details, do I hand it to:

VicPol, ACAB and institutionally incompetent

70%

Telstra, usually just incompetent

30%

Poll ended at Feb 1 at 5:11am.

ajft [SEC=&8212;haha]Jan 31

Why thank you #telstra spicy autocorrect, but I think you are full of crap. I suspect that there is a closer Telstra store than Northland!

wifi_freak Jan 23

TIL: Mobile Service Provider in Australien (müssen?) Geräte blocken, wenn sie irgendwelche Bugs beim #Notruf haben.

Also z.B. wenn #Telstra dein Home Carrier ist und die 📱 es nicht sauber schaffen über #Optus oder #Vodafone nen Notruf rauszubekommen (da #3G IIRC mittlerweile auch in Australien abgeschalten ist, dürften sie vermutlich den Emergency IMS Bearer nicht sauber hoch bekommen).

https://www.telstra.com.au/exchange/older-mobile-devices-calling-triple-zero-

Keeping you safe: an issue with some older mobile devices calling Triple Zero

As part of our device testing, we've identified a number of older mobile devices that are not correctly connecting to the Vodafone mobile network to make Triple Zero calls, when the customer’s primary mobile network is unavailable.

Telstra.com

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Wulfy—Speaker to the machines Jan 11

@chozari @sortius @MelissaBearTrix

Telecommunications Ombudsman.
Make a complain, they usually action complaint through them, as it costs them moni.

Not sure if there is still universal obligation.
But try.

#telstra #australia

Opinion | The Guardian US Dec 23

Free calls to Santa from payphones are a gift – and a reminder that public goods have a value beyond money | Cressida Gaukroger https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/24/free-calls-to-santa-payphones-australia-a-gift #Telecommunicationsindustry #Telstra

Free calls to Santa from payphones are a gift – and a reminder that public goods have a value beyond money

The cost of making an Australian public good like beaches, museums, transport and phones free or universal is marginal – while the benefits are immense

The Guardian