Senator Alston made a complete Christmas goose of himself in Question Time today over pair gains, a line splitting technology Telstra uses which the ACCC found can have unfavourable effects on Internet speeds and ADSL access.
In a lame attempt to attack my campaign on behalf of the thousands of “Victims of Pair Gains” who are suffering from inferior Telstra technology, Senator Alston was forced to admit that the ACCC had indeed found “some problems” with pair gains.
Following the ACCC investigation, Telstra will now have to tell consumers who apply for a second phone line about the possible impact pair gains can have on Internet speeds.
The ACCC findings followed my complaint to them about Telstra splitting an existing telephone line to provide two services, rather than installing a dedicated separate phone line which customers believed they were paying for.
Senator Alston did not say what the Government is doing about Telstra’s poor service, however he did acknowledge that the Estens Report did find problems with pair gains and recommended Telstra devise a strategy to specifically deal with the problems pair gains cause.
What Senator Alston did do was make a complete goose of himself and reveal to the thousands of affected Australians that he doesn’t know a pair gain from a pear tree.
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