Ok ****o, here's some insights into your idea:
1. Usually when someone tries to sound genuine in order to scam people,
they have a decent grasp of language. You seem to be a bit indecisive as
to which words need capitalisation or not, and have yet to figure out
when to use there/their/they're.
2. Telstra is a company infamous for ripping off people who don't know
the first thing about technology. Like the phrase "everyone buys their
(not there) second bike from a bike shop" <-- because they quickly
figure out it's better to get something decent from people who know what
they're talking about.
3. Telstra is notoriously slow in rolling out broadband technology - so
much so that Australian internet speeds are about that of Nth America
and Europe 5 years ago (at triple the cost).
4. Telstra is quite keen on 18 month contracts. Your optional switch you
mention at the end would require incurring a fee of multiple hundreds of
dollars. On top of that Telstra's plans charge $0.15/mb for excess
downloads - that's $150/gb at 256kbps. AND if you were lucky enough to
change without any other fees, it's $99 flat rate to provision a phone
line/change ISPs through Telstra (who have a monopoly on the
infrastructure).
5. While in theory demand will bring supply, you'd need at least 100
people per exchange to make Telstra take notice. Since they have been
driving their broadband offers so hard, you'd find nearly every exchange
that is capable of carrying xDSL has been enabled. The technology that
Telstra employs restricts them from offering ADSL to anyone who lives
further than 3km from an exchange. To summarise: even if 50 people near
the one exchange read this spam and took it seriously, chances are if
they can't get it now, they won't be able to get it still.
6. You don't need to change to Telstra for your phone service to get
their broadband.
7. Though your message is on behalf of "Internet service providers" your
email address is a personal one, and a Telstra Bigpond one no less. Is
this spam a part of a negotiated cheaper deal with Telstra?
Sorry about the rant, but I am really sick of Telstra preying on people
who don't know a lot about the technology it is selling. I have friends
locked into long contracts who are desperately unhappy with Telstra's
service but they have to deal with it due to the restrictive contract.
If you do really want to get broadband in Australia, go to
whirlpool.org, who review all companies, plans and technologies in the
Australian broadband market.
I second, third, and fourth your rant. When I was a broadband