<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://1401/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Jul 19, 2013, at 3:08 PM, "Beeson, Ayden" <<a href="mailto:ABeeson@csu.edu.au">ABeeson@csu.edu.au</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-AU" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">That’s pretty cool, though I’d be surprised to see Telstra offering something comparable it’d definitely go a long way to solving this for most people.<o:p></o:p></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>Telstra already does offer something comparable.</div><div><br></div><div>They have CSGs to comply with. In rural areas where it's too expensive to light up a </div><div>new CSG-mandated service with copper, it isn't at all unusual for them to supply a </div><div>mobile phone on a billing plan that matches PSTN.</div><div><br></div><div>(same for Bigpond Broadband -- I know a few farmers who have it supplied by CPE </div><div>that has a NextG SIM in it)</div><div><br></div><div> - mark</div><div><br></div><br></body></html>