NewYearNewLife

Hi We are just about to move to the Gold Coast and have a couple of questions about finding a good broadband and home phone provider. We've bought a house with an existing landline which is probably no longer connected. Do we have to get Telstra to hook us up or as the house is apparently within an NBN area can we just go with a new provider for Broadband and home phone? Do you even need a landline anymore? Here in the UK we have had everything (phone,broadband,mobile and TV) through Sky but I'm not sure if there is as much benefit over there. FOXTEL seems expensive and with Netflix and Amazon Prime available we can probably get what we need, TV wise, from those. But would anyone recommend a company that do phone, mobile and broadband as a package? Ideally we'd find a company that did a family plan for mobile so we could share the data across several phones.Is that possible? All help and advice gratefully received. Cheers in advance!

"sailed through" .... ha ha. Thanks so much for your reply, much appreciated.

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Hi Just about to fill in our AQUIS form and I just wondered how detailed people had been in the past with logging all purchases from the last twelve months. Clearly we haven't stopped shopping in the last year so should we be including a few token purchases? Has anyone listed no and then had to go through it all with customs at the other end?

Thank you so much for your replies, really helpful.

Is it true that we need to tip the packers ... and if so, how much?? I'm arranging food and drinks etc.. but a friend just mentioned tipping. Any advice appreciated thank you

Eek ... that's what I was worried about, but at least I know. Thanks for your response, that's really helpful.

Hi, Thanks to everyone who has previously posted about their shipping day experience. We are shipping our entire house full of stuff and I'd really appreciate some feedback on the best way to prepare for the team of packers. - Do drawers get packed as is (full of contents) - Do they give you time to check and maybe take a photo of the contents of each box (we aren't opening them all on arrival in Australia as we are moving to a smaller house) I've heard the team of packers come into your house like a whirlwind and as a control freak, this is making me very anxious. Any advice and experience much appreciated, thank you