Like " Sylvia's Mother ". . . . . . . 40 cents more for another 3 minutes.
ST391GQ said
07:19 PM Oct 4, 2015
Lesley F wrote:
Telstra? I call them HELLSTRA!!!
If you think Telstra is bad...then have a go at Optus....especially if using their mobile plans. All looks n sounds good on paper but it aint!!
Just ask my other half hey.
Cheers Keith
moamajohn said
09:16 PM Oct 4, 2015
I never called them any of that nor did any one else because in those days it was PMG only and nothing more . However my four pennies got me in touch with my Nana once a week and it was great !!
-- Edited by moamajohn on Sunday 4th of October 2015 09:17:02 PM
NeilandRaine said
11:04 PM Oct 4, 2015
you mean you don't have to do that anymore
Joe50 said
01:15 AM Oct 5, 2015
Growing up in Sydney I vaguely remember walking to the nearest public phone one evening with Mum to make a "trunk" call to my grandmother in Brisbane, must have been the late 1950s before we went upmarket and got our own telephone - standard PMG issue black bakelite with rotary dial. Fast forward 10 years and I was working for the PMG in a city post office, and we'd often receive calls from telephone exchanges located all over Australia testing the new-fangled Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) system - crystal clear reception compared to the scratchy, distant voice I heard a decade earlier. One of the reasons I'm glad to be of the baby boomer generation ... so much change in technology in one lifetime.
Joe
nimrod said
01:21 AM Oct 6, 2015
I used to make International calls home. Firstly you had to book the call and the length of the call - sometimes days ahead. Then you had to deal with long delays waiting for your voice to be heard and the answer to come back and.....it cost a fortune!
Radar said
06:44 AM Oct 6, 2015
Hi All
It was about 1966 or there abouts my roller skating girl friend at the time was a telephonist at a very small exchange, I left and went out bush to work from the coastal area where we both grew up, her parting words were "keep in touch", I said I am not much of a writer, her reply was pick up the phone and say to the operator that you would like to speak with such and such at. Well after a while of doing this I got to know a lot of telephonist and many a Saturday night bush dance I met these wonderful young ladies and had partners for dances and places to have dinners around Central NSW.
What a great time it was and even into the seventies and eighties making reverse charge calls to home from where ever I was driving trucks delivering goods though the eastern seaboard of Australia leave me with great memories.
I am really glad to of hard those experiences although my darling wife would rather I lived a normal life at home. Ralph
Fuzzball said
04:10 PM Oct 6, 2015
Try Telstra Boost...unlimited calls, unlimited texts and 3 GB Internet data for $40 per month. It's prepaid and it's great!
Desert Dweller said
04:28 PM Oct 8, 2015
Funnily enough we've had nothing but good experiences with Telstra.
Aus-Kiwi said
06:33 PM Oct 13, 2015
We grew up having a party line out in NZ country .. Our phone ring long short short .. It would ring the 6 other houses but you only answered your call.. We had to ring exchange to ring other phones.. To ring neighbours ? We could ring them using our own phone .. 3 long or 3 shorts etc keep in mind all 6 can hear the rings.. Not too good at night ..
Gday...
Cheers - John
Telstra? I call them HELLSTRA!!!
Like " Sylvia's Mother ". . . . . . . 40 cents more for another 3 minutes.
If you think Telstra is bad...then have a go at Optus....especially if using their mobile plans. All looks n sounds good on paper but it aint!!
Just ask my other half hey.
Cheers Keith
I never called them any of that nor did any one else because in those days it was PMG only and nothing more .
However my four pennies got me in touch with my Nana once a week and it was great !!
-- Edited by moamajohn on Sunday 4th of October 2015 09:17:02 PM
Joe
I used to make International calls home. Firstly you had to book the call and the length of the call - sometimes days ahead. Then you had to deal with long delays waiting for your voice to be heard and the answer to come back and.....it cost a fortune!
Hi All
It was about 1966 or there abouts my roller skating girl friend at the time was a telephonist at a very small exchange, I left and went out bush to work from the coastal area where we both grew up, her parting words were "keep in touch", I said I am not much of a writer, her reply was pick up the phone and say to the operator that you would like to speak with such and such at. Well after a while of doing this I got to know a lot of telephonist and many a Saturday night bush dance I met these wonderful young ladies and had partners for dances and places to have dinners around Central NSW.
What a great time it was and even into the seventies and eighties making reverse charge calls to home from where ever I was driving trucks delivering goods though the eastern seaboard of Australia leave me with great memories.
I am really glad to of hard those experiences although my darling wife would rather I lived a normal life at home. Ralph