Yes we finally have internet. Well we did have internet before but we had to go through the cell phone network which limits the amount of stuff you can download, no YouTube, and it was expensive and SLOW. The problem is, everyone wanted a 2 year contract and I don't want to commit to two years because I'd have to pay a penalty to get out of it. Well the big monopolies do.
I eventually found a company that gives you unlimited internet for $60, but I had to get a phone for $30 a month. Home phones here are not like in Canada. Every phone call you make here costs you. So that's $30+ phone calls, why would we do that when we have cell phones and the rates aren't much better. But even though I have a phone and interenet it works out cheaper because to get a 1 year contract internet thru Telstra, a big company, it was $99 a month. At least with this arrangment I can cancel at any time. But after I go on this Club Telco's web site I find out that they offer better cell phone internet. They resell the services of the same company as I was using for a $5 bucks more but 3 times the amount of internet usage. ($50=6.9gig or $55=15gig) Bummer!
With this new internet I will now be able to upload our videos on to YouTube and watch YouTube videos. Now I wish I had a treadmill.
Everyone you can now skype me, I'll try to leave it running all the time if I can.
The only thing left to get is a smartphone. Right now we both have pretty dumb phones. As usual we don't want to lock into a contract for 2 years so there are unlocked phones that are $300+. Woolworths, a food store, has a pretty good deal on pay as you go rates which actually uses the network of the cell phone company we currently use. With an unlocked phone hopefully we can use it and pick up some pay as you go when we travel to other countries.
We are getting so modern here in Darwin. I'd say we're probably up to about 2005, well L and I are still in the past, everyone around us is well ahead of us.
