</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Originally posted by bill_eric:<br /><strong> I have a friend who lives in the northern suburbs of Sydney. He applied to Telstra/littlepuddle for ADSL and was told that the exchange and telephone lines could not handle it. Same answer from Optus and Primus.<br />He applied on-line to Swiftel (now People Telecom) and the connection was set up in one and a half weeks, using the same infrastructure that the other "providers" said could not be used.<br />Whose is pulling whose pud, eh?? </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Thats strange you would think its the other way around, Telstra, Bigpond should know whats going on not People 's telecom. I wonder how long the Delay was between the Application for Bigpond to People's Telecom, he could have been unlucky and asked Bigpond one day early before completion of the upgrade. <img border="0" title="" alt="[Smile]" src="images/icons/default/smile.gif" />