A couple of years have passed and I haven't updated the page at all.
If anyone emails me about the "straw trick" again I will get rather irate.
So do I have any new knowledge to impart on you all? Not really.
Been somewhat busy of late.
A
lot of people are throwing out analogue mobile phones or trading them in
when buying a gsm phone. I on the other hand annoy these people to
just give them to me so I can make my bedroom look more geeky.
The picture on the right is of the first mobile phone I ever owned, an NEC Sportz. In the end I got it disconnected because I couldn't be bothered getting the battery repacked and I never got any calls anyway. Towards the end of its working life though I powered it for a while on AA batteries as can be seen in the pic.
From left to right we have a nokia 1000 (THA-9), nokia sprinter (THA-95C), early telecom badged motorola flip, motorola dpc650. I have a Nokia 5110, 6110 and 8210 and a motorola 1-888 in my GSM collection in my GSM collection. I've no idea what I'm going to do with these phones, but I'll think of something I'm sure. My plan is when they supposedly stop using the analogue network I will become a fugitive running my own network. I should have enough phones by then to equip everyone who counts..
Wanting to call a shareware board overseas just for the hell of it? There are several internet outdials that do actually work. If you have any more to add to the list or any of them have gone down, make sure you drop me an email.
Thanks
to Griffin here we have a
list of Brisbane payphone numbers.
We also have our own APB QLD payphone list.
Your everyday numbers.
12722199
Ringback (Subscriber Automatic Line Test)
1223
Directory Assistance, National And Local
1225
Directory Assistance, International
*10#
Number of Last Unanswered Call (was free during November
'98.)
#43#
Turn Off Call Waiting
*43#
Turn On Call Waiting
1813
This is an Optus test number for 1812 & 1813 calling card services
at Moorooka
1831
Caller ID Block Prefix
1832
Caller ID Force Send
12711
Long Distance Carrier Check
12550
Reverse Charge & Call Connect (good for passing free messages)
12556
Hold music stream.
12722123
ANI
155XX
Recorded Voice Announcements.
001600
"No Access"
018018222 ANI
1900-909-000 Check if you can dial 190
1900-915-445 The Time That Counts. Queensland
Time. (95c Per Min)
1902-241-185 Dial An Insult (75c Per Min)
1800-813-507 Messagebank Stutter Dialtone
Demonstration
(07) 3892-6486 Pizza Hut Delivery & Takeaway TTY Orders
CLOCK
How to grab the current date/time via modem.
The international toll free numbers changed from 0014-800-12X-XXX to 1-800-12X-XXX. Always amusement to be found. Do not call a large number of these from home. Telstra will send you a polite letter asking you to quit it.
1800-128-XXX
to 270
1800-050-XXX to 138
1800-639-XXX to 205
1800-801-XXX to 268
018-018-XXX
You can send SMS messages to all
mobile phones in Australia except for those on the Optus network.
The prefixes..
| System | Carrier | Phone Number Ranges |
| AMPS-800 | Telstra | 014, 015, 018, 019 |
| GSM-900 | Optus | 0411, 0412, 0413 |
| GSM-900 | Telstra | 0417, 0418, 0419, 0407, 0408, 0409 |
| GSM-900 | Vodafone | 0414, 0415, 0416 |
Huddling
with the cockroaches, Telstra employees can sometimes be seen messing about
inside these pits. Well, sometimes they can't be seen as they set
up a cute little tent over the top, but still!
Often they kindly leave their van parked nearby with the backdoor open so you can have a peek at their wares.
A most security conscious bunch of workers indeed.
If you haven't read the Neurocactus magazines be sure to check them out. "The not so informational light hearted H/P magazine" actually has some interesting articles. Do you have the missing issue? There are also a couple of other zines with phone related info on www.mindrape.org.
More information can be gained from reading the CORE magazines. Issue 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
New
Smartcard Payphones.. Well, after the problems that Telstra
were having with their older X? phones they did something about it.
You can pick the newer phones by the "Phonewatch" insignia located where
the phone usage diagrams used to be. (Why
anyone would call a 13XXXX number to report phone buggery is beyond me,
like we'll pay). You can also pick them by a dialing quirk Telstra
seems to have put in place. The tones for the first few numbers you
dial can be heard, but it then pauses till you're done and throws the DTMF
down the line one by one. I have seen old smartcard phones approx.
4 hours out of Brisbane but they seem to have the city/suburbs fixed.
In a couple of problem areas the phones also have a rather thick piece
of metal replacing the old coin slot so stupid scams are not so easy to
achieve. Now they need to think about fixing the coin return button.
Ever wondered what number the smartcard phone you're trying to use
is dialing when it says "phone busy - please, wait a moment"? Thanks
to a little effort on behalf of myself and Brother Franklyn, wonder no
longer. The magic number is 1-800-633-047. Initially I suspected
the modems in the smartphones would be non-standard but I was wrong.
Here's a log of a modem connect to the number.
