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      Just had a very similar issue.  Mine was that an ISP unknown
      applied for a service at an address (that was incorrect) and
      "Forcibly terminated" (according to Telstra's terms)  my client
      (Telstra Business customer).<br>
      <br>
      Telstra refused to reconnect as my client (who had been connected
      or 2 years) as he had apparently moved or changed address without
      him knowing and so we had to make-up a new address for them to
      reconnect.  Then they said, well, that's going to be a new
      connection thanks (even though, same number, same Telstra Internet
      Business Account, Same username and Passwd)  at $250 from memory. 
      Well, needless to say, that's when I hit the roof as I am an
      authorised contact for the client.<br>
      <br>
      Then reconnection day came...   Installer/Liney arrives and says,
      I cant do this, the service goes via a RIM, sorry, I'll get the
      phone going, but your ADSL wont work until they redesign the path
      to be direct from exchange.  I finally spoke to the most helpful
      guy in Telstra (yes a local) and 3 days later, re-jumpered direct
      and all working.  Total outage for my client just shy of 3 weeks.
      And no compensation and very nearly a reconnection fee!  Total
      time on phone to various OS no-help desks 5 hours.<br>
      <br>
      This was a Telstra business customer with me driving it, I can't
      imagine how a residential user would get on in such a situation,
      they would end up with a new number, new account and a connection
      fee and no doubt longer than 3 week outage.<br>
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      <br>
      Mal<br>
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      On 25/02/2016 3:19 PM, Joshua D'Alton wrote:<br>
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      <p dir="ltr">Aren't there supposed to be some safeguard and checks
        to prevent this...? I thought they had to check the phone number
        wasn't used at a different address (which is the case here
        yes?)?<br>
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      <div class="gmail_quote">On 25 Feb 2016 3:10 pm, "David Vidos -
        NOVA iT GROUP" <<a moz-do-not-send="true"
          href="mailto:David.Vidos@novaitgroup.com.au">David.Vidos@novaitgroup.com.au</a>>
        wrote:<br type="attribution">
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              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Looking for some
                  advice.</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We have a customer
                  who has all his services bundled with Telstra,
                  including Foxtel.</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Last week, his
                  internet suddenly stopped working.  An authentication
                  issue for Foxtel started appearing.  A call to
                  Telstra, and they came back with it looks like your
                  landline has been hijacked.</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Following this,
                  Telstra reported it would be all operational within 24
                  hours.  Since then, we have spent over 7.5 hours
                  trying to find why the internet connection is no
                  longer working.</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Finally, after
                  being pushed back and forth between
                  Telstra/Foxtel/Bigpond, we were able to get
                  information from Bigpond that basically told us the
                  ADSL codes on the line are Foxtel Management codes.</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">We then called
                  Foxtel, and found (after they explicitly told us
                  no-one can look that up), that we were wrong and
                  Bigpond were wrong.  However, when I asked them to run
                  a test on the line, and they eventually agreed, they
                  transferred me again, and the next person admitted it
                  appears that another customer churned to Foxtel, but
                  provided the wrong phone number.</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">So, what are our
                  options?  We’ve got a customer who has had no internet
                  for over a week, plus tech support costs to get this
                  resolved.  Foxtel have said “no compensation”.  The
                  customer is rightfully upset.</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Is his only option
                  to go to the TIO or is there a department inside
                  Telstra that could help?</span></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span
                    style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#e36c0a">David Vidos</span></b></p>
              <p class="MsoNormal"><span
                  style="font-size:10.0pt;color:#7f7f7f">Head Honcho |
                  <b>NOVA iT GROUP</b></span></p>
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