"thegoons" <thegoons@bigpond.com> wrote in message
news:47eb9308$0$26070$88260bb3@free.teranews.com.. .
> As has been reported recently, Telstra is dicontinuing the 0500 Telepath
> One-Number system. Whilst Telstra has not sold the product for some years,
> existing subscribers have been able to keep their numbers....... until now

They were given over 12 mths notice. Which was an unusually long time

> Telstra's Communications Manager Rod Bruem (fat-gutted Phil Burgess'
> sidekick) is a hearltess arsehole when it comes to commenting on conerns
> voiced by a volunteer group that will lose their 0500 number (quote from
> the

The number doesnt do anything, it just lands calls on other number. So just
advertise your real number, or get a 1300 number like everyone else.

You can get em for like $10-$15 a month, and they are much more flexible.
Get with it

> I would urge all 0500 Telepath number holders to complain to their local
> Federal parliamentarians and to the ACCC, remind them of Telstra's
> promises back in 1997:
>
> "One-Number-for-Life" and "one number, which can remain yours for a
> lifetime, or at least as long as you want it." Telstra Group Managing

Marketing puff.