Utilities, broadband, etc.
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Utilities, broadband, etc.
Hey all. Am after some general advice on utilities providers. Have been living with family since arriving in country NSW (Griffith) in Sept. Wife has a job in Orange, NSW, starting Easter and a job has come up for me to apply for too, so Orange is where we're headed in a couple of months time. Its not necessarily where we want to settle, but jobs is jobs and it's a start! It's also 'only' 3 hours from Sydney instead of 7
I'll shop around obviously but some general advice on utilities providers would be much appreciated. Electricity, gas (hopefully - miss cooking on gas!), telephone, broadband, water, blah blah etc.
Telephone and broadband may be trickiest in a way? We'll be renting a house to start with whilst looking for somewhere to buy. i.e. we won't want to commit to a 12 month contract for anything as we might only be renting for 6 months, possibly less. Mobile BB is a stopgap option but we're heavy internet users and I make lots of use of the VPN
Cheers
I'll shop around obviously but some general advice on utilities providers would be much appreciated. Electricity, gas (hopefully - miss cooking on gas!), telephone, broadband, water, blah blah etc.
Telephone and broadband may be trickiest in a way? We'll be renting a house to start with whilst looking for somewhere to buy. i.e. we won't want to commit to a 12 month contract for anything as we might only be renting for 6 months, possibly less. Mobile BB is a stopgap option but we're heavy internet users and I make lots of use of the VPN
Cheers
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Re: Utilities, broadband, etc.
Hey all. Am after some general advice on utilities providers. Have been living with family since arriving in country NSW (Griffith) in Sept. Wife has a job in Orange, NSW, starting Easter and a job has come up for me to apply for too, so Orange is where we're headed in a couple of months time. Its not necessarily where we want to settle, but jobs is jobs and it's a start! It's also 'only' 3 hours from Sydney instead of 7
I'll shop around obviously but some general advice on utilities providers would be much appreciated. Electricity, gas (hopefully - miss cooking on gas!), telephone, broadband, water, blah blah etc.
Telephone and broadband may be trickiest in a way? We'll be renting a house to start with whilst looking for somewhere to buy. i.e. we won't want to commit to a 12 month contract for anything as we might only be renting for 6 months, possibly less. Mobile BB is a stopgap option but we're heavy internet users and I make lots of use of the VPN
Cheers
I'll shop around obviously but some general advice on utilities providers would be much appreciated. Electricity, gas (hopefully - miss cooking on gas!), telephone, broadband, water, blah blah etc.
Telephone and broadband may be trickiest in a way? We'll be renting a house to start with whilst looking for somewhere to buy. i.e. we won't want to commit to a 12 month contract for anything as we might only be renting for 6 months, possibly less. Mobile BB is a stopgap option but we're heavy internet users and I make lots of use of the VPN
Cheers
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Re: Utilities, broadband, etc.
Quite a few of the providers we contacted will allow you to transfer your contract to a new property. It is one of the things we asked when enquiring. We have Dodo broadband - unlimited broadband and we also have the landline phone package with them. All local, national and international calls included. Think we pay around $60-70 for the package and again it is transferrable.
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Re: Utilities, broadband, etc.
We have DoDo and they have, last week, happily transferred our phone and unlimited Internet from the NT to Melbourne, no problems x
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When I moved from one town to the neighbouring town back home - within same dialling code - I had to cancel both telephone and broadband contracts and start afresh... So for DoDo to allow a state to state move is quite impressive to me!