GRIPES

[Marty_d]

Used to be that you only got advertising on free products. Like the majority of apps which are free, make their money through ads.

However recently even the paid services show ads. Netflix and Prime especially. If you don't want ads, you pay more.

Basically it's because billionaires are arseholes.

[facthunter]

Pretty much correct.. Corner the Market and there's no competition. If you can't compete. Put tariffs on.  Whinge about everyone one ripping you off on trade DEALS you signed and not under duress either. Nev

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

I can't get a code anymore for my online banking changes. The bank will only send a code via mobile phone now, not landline, the way I used to receive it. I don't have a mobile, and even if I did have one, there is no reception here. I'm up the creek without a paddle.

 

In this respect, online banking doesn't exist for me any longer, I'll have to drive all the way to town, at their whim, and do my banking at the counter. The only other way is to buy a mobile phone, travel 10ks or more to higher ground, download the code, rush back home, enter it, hoping I haven't been automatically logged out due to inactivity. 

 

Everyone around here will be similarly affected. 

 

There's no consideration for bushies anymore, if there ever was.

[willedoo]

It amazes me some of the places that don't have mobile phone coverage. Ten years ago I went for a visit to Tasmania and visited people in the Upper Esk Valley. They had no coverage and had to drive to town to get a signal. As far as I know it's still like that. I would have thought with the number of people it would service, it would be a fairly simple matter to put a tower on one of the hills there.

[nomadpete]

16 minutes ago, willedoo said:

. I would have thought with the number of people it would service, it would be a fairly simple matter to put a tower on one of the hills there.

You can thank privatisation for that.

 

User pays. A base station isn't cheap. If it doesn't make a profit over and above the install cost there, it doesn't get installed. A handful of customers will never be profitable.

If you want capital city services, move to a capital city.

[Grumpy Old Nasho]

Nothing but power outages today, they're back! Started 8:30 this morning, and the third and last one (I hope), finished just now. The first one was a notified outage, the other two weren't.

 

Since I had no electricity, I took the opportunity to drive all the way to town to inquire at my bank about not being able to get a code for online banking. The guy I spoke to, probably a supervisor, had no idea there are areas out here without mobile coverage, I had to fill him in on what it's like out here. He busied himself working out what I could do. After a while, he came back and said "Ring this branch when you need a code, and a female (her name was provided) will give you one".

 

 Quite a step backwards if you ask me.