Category: Customer experience

The Apple iPad: So close, yet so far

Introduction

The iPad is both the best and worst kept secret to come from the computing powerhouse / genius of Apple. Like many, prior to its launch, I’ve been reading the various rumour sites imagining what it might be like, what I need from it and trying to discern fact from fiction. Now that it’s here, I’ve done a quick synopsis of what I think are its strengths and weaknesses based on the available Apple information.

image of the Apple iPad

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Trust me – I’ve been doing this for a long time

I rang Telstra to cancel my data pack (see the post here for an explanation). The customer service rep, trying to be helpful and service oriented, asked me if she could ask me a few questions about my account usage to determine if I’m on the right package. I said ‘sure’ and this is what followed…

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Billing cycles, over charging and arbitrary business rules

I’ve talked about my Telstra Next-G service before (here and here) and generally I’m quite happy with it.

The data pack I used while I was away was terrific compared to the dialup I used to use.  But you’ll see that there were some usability issues with the messaging provided by Telstra on my usage of the megabyte allowance.

It turns out that it also had a spill over effect on billing, meaning that if I had bought the data pack at any other time during the billing cycle than on the start date, I risked being charged excess usage fees.  Read on for why this happened and the argy bargy I had to go through…

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