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Telstra Went Down. You Are Owed Something. Here Is How to Get It.
If Telstra dropped the ball and left you without service, you did not just lose signal. You lost something you paid for. That is not a shrug-and-move-on situation. Under Australian Consumer Law, services must be fit for purpose and delivered with due care and skill. When a telco fails to deliver the service you contracted and paid for, you have rights. Not suggestions. Rights. This page tells you exactly what they are and what to do next.
What the law says
Under the Australian Consumer Law (Schedule 2 of the Competition and Consumer Act 2010), services come with automatic consumer guarantees. Australian Consumer Law s 60 requires that services be rendered with due care and skill. Australian Consumer Law s 61 requires that services be fit for the purpose you were told they would serve. When a service fails those guarantees, Australian Consumer Law s 267 gives you the right to a remedy from the supplier. That remedy can include a price reduction or a refund for the period of failure. You do not need to beg. You do not need to accept a credit you never asked for. You are entitled to ask for your money back for the time you had no service. Check your specific contract and fare rules for any additional entitlements Telstra may have committed to, because those contractual promises sit on top of your statutory rights, not instead of them.
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