[Zemo]

rotsa ruck, kid!

 

[Southmelbswans]

I always understood that if your Telco had an outage and you dialled 000 then it would be picked up by another telco in your area. It is obvious that Optus is not the only Telco servicing WA, SA and part of NSW so why has there been an unannounced change to the 000 service????

 

[BruceC]

It’s amazing how fast they can implement a law when its suits them but it takes over 12 months to implement the “CASH” law which only forces the corporate supermarkets to accept cash and no other businesses.

 

[Zemo]

If caah is still legal, then you have every right to demand that the retailer accepts it, and they cannot refuse iti
If they have a sign out which states that they will not take your cash, then YOU have every right to (1) ask why and (B) let them know that you won't be dealing there ever again. Plus, you can indicate that your family and neighbours won't, either.
If you've already selected goods and are at the checkout when they inform you of the situation, simply say, "Sorry, didn't see the sign", leave the goods at the checkout and waltz out.
It's worth it to see the momentary confusion on their faces.

 

[kevin2852]

000 is a special number which can only be used in an emergency. Instead of making 000 an Australia wide all suppliers, all communications systems availability, it appears to be leased. If I need an emergency ambulance, I do not either want or need access to a public database which tells me why the system isn't working. Especially if, like most government overkill it will take me 20 minutes of continuous SMS messages and passwords to get into it. Most people who need urgent and immediate help need help not government paperwork.
Get your act together and force every Telco in Australia to connect to a UNIVERSAL EMERGENCY SCHEME so that an operator in Hobart can pick up a call from NE Qld and send it IMMEDIATELY to the local service.

This what we need, not trashy databases filled in 3 days later.

 

[Josephine767]

I always understood that if your Telco had an outage and you dialled 000 then it would be picked up by another telco in your area. It is obvious that Optus is not the only Telco servicing WA, SA and part of NSW so why has there been an unannounced change to the 000 service????

When we had a combination of copper Landlines and mobiles, it was always the case that when one Telco was down, it automatically switched to another Telco, especially with emergency calls "000." I even recall that when Optus was down (as I was previously with Optus), my mobile would register the available Telcos to switch to, this was before NBN.
If I were to take a guess, it would appear that it was an oversight with the Minister of Communications when NBN was introduced, and Cooper Landlines were disconnected.
They were caught up in the hysteria of the introduction of new Technology, Telecommunications via Computers, etc, etc,... Food for thought... they forgot about an essential service that was in place before NBN.

 

[SGH]

I seem to remember when we first had mobile phones, if you were out of range of supplier your screen would show 244 emergency calls only.