Quote Originally Posted by Crash-Headroom View Post
It wasn't quite that he was stupid, it was the fact he lived in the arse end of nowhere, with 4 houses next to him then NOTHING for miles XD Telstra were the only ones who had a line out to where he lived. Showed me on google maps man it is honestly deserted, his house, 4 others, a farm a mile away and then NOTHING till ...uhhh....crap was it victora he lived near? Think he said victora, was 2 hour drive i remember him saying that from where he was.
I'm in country Victoria, in a small town of a couple hundred people.
Plenty of 3rd party ISPs have been using telstra hardware longer than 6 years. In fact the local exchange here only has telstra and optus gear afaik, all the other ISPs resell from that.

What he claimed just doesn't seem right. I've never heard of someone only being able to use telstra ADSL and not any other ISP reselling...it's actually against the law and should be investigated. Competition has been around here for a long time.

The wireless tower is probably different though as it's NBN, but I haven't read into that.