Well .. full marks to Telstra!
They ported the phone from Optus on Monday 5 August (and sent me a letter last week telling when they were doing it!) .
I rang yesterday to sort out the 'lines on which house' problem and got an operator (they've all been Aussies for Telstra) who had a brain. He decided the best thing to do was cancel my 7407 number (the old house one) and then change the 2541 (new house, temp line) to 7407. Easy as. No physical unhookings and it would be completed by Friday 7th, he said. Gave me the Seibel reference number (just in case).
Well it was completed before midday today, a day ahead of schedule!
I already put my net application in as, of lunchtime. Let's see if iiNet can do as well.
Much fun to be had this weekend with a skip for all those things we thought we needed all these years but didn't really. And a Kanga! with attachments. The boys have baggsed it already. Looks like I'm in the hayfever brigade, throwing out rubbish.
