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Busting bill myths: The facts about Telstra’s new look bill



Topic: Telstra

Tags:    billing-system  customer  facts  furphies  myths  telstra  transformation


Myth busting - Finding the truth

As we hear of inaccurate commentary about Telstra’s new look bill, we’ll bust these myths and set the record straight for you.

Myth

Fact

Telstra customers can no longer get a detailed bill. Telstra customers will continue to have choice. In addition to an online bill, customers can choose to receive the new look paper bill or a detailed paper bill. They can also choose to go-paperless and only receive their bill online.
Telstra is changing account numbers to 10 digits. Telstra have had 10 digit account numbers since the early 1990’s. All accounts managed on the new systems will now have 13 digit account numbers, and for the first time, this will be consistent for all types of services – home phone, mobile phone, BigPond® and SingleBill.
Telstra would save more paper if customers received a quarterly bill. Telstra is undertaking a number of different initiatives with our bills. These include offering customers who have multiple services with us a SingleBill rather than separate bills per service, offering the new Paper Bill and promoting Online Billing. Overall Telstra will be reducing the number of sheets of paper it uses to issue bills each year.

Comments

James McBride
2 comments

26 July 2008
12:29pm

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Online billing and paperless bills have been available for a while now. However, the "Online" bill only offers options to print the cover sheet of the old bill - not in fact the entire 6 or 10 pages that one would get in the mail if they got a paper bill. The call data is available to download as html or csv or some other format - but using online billing, you could never download a pdf style copy of the entire bill EXACTLY AS IT IS PRINTED as it is on the paper copy. For multiple services on a single bill, this is important in order to itemise everything. Does the new billing system allow an Online Bill user to print or download a PDF copy of their bill EXACTLY the same as the one they would normally get in the mail? Not just a cover page, not just online html listings without monthly fees etc.but a FULL PDF copy of the printed bill? This hasn't been answered yet and is the only reason that I have not switched to full online billing - quite simply because the bill I get as a customer in the mail is complete with all charges and itemised billing - the online one is not. I end up scanning my mailed bill for archive purposes. Besides allowing for the full itemised pdf bill to be available online, it would be easy enough just to email me a copy of my pdf bill / invoice the same as most other companies do. Can the new billing system do this? Or will it only print a summary page, which is no better than what we have available already.

nowwearetalking editor

At this time Online Bill provides the same functionality as previously provided. We continue to look at options to improve the Online Bill experience for our customers.


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