Talk:BigPond

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They were operating in Cambodia at some point for sure. The best link i can find to support it though is from the old domain name: http://www.bigpond.com.kh/members/who.htm Two stripe 03:45, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

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[edit] External links

I have removed http://unmetered.bigblog.com.au from external links as I don't see how this really benefits the article. Seems like a user is just trying to get hits over to his site. Style guideline is over at Wikipedia:External links. --Breno talk 11:35, 3 November 2007 (UTC)


[edit] BigPond rating and use of Westnet

I have removed parts of the BigPond rating from choice magazine's survey as it was constantly referring to Westnet, which is not relevant to the subject or article for that matter —Preceding unsigned comment added by 58.165.224.66 (talk) 13:33, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Merger proposal

As GameArena is BigPond's game service, join this to Other Services section and have a more detailed article than two short ones. --Breno talk 02:03, 19 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Proposal of Mergerging BigPond into Telstra article

Since BigPond is still a part of Telstra, I am proposing BigPond is moved to the Telstra article. Once/if BigPond is seperated from Telstra, this would warrant a seperate article. Tomau (talk) 06:53, 21 January 2008 (UTC)

Although BigPond is a subsidiary of Telstra, it's certainally a big enough player in the ISP market to meet notability requirements WP:ORG on its own. Doing a quick google news search shows how many secondary sources this company gets on a regular basis. It's also not as though this article is a stub or a pov fork from Telstra article. While by no means a featured article this does have potential to grow in the long term. Your thoughts? --Breno talk 10:19, 21 January 2008 (UTC)
I'd agree BigPond is large enough to have its seperate article, and on further research I have found that although BigPond is owned by Telstra, they operate as two different "seperate" companies? On this basis the article should stay, and also saves the hassle of relocating it if Telstra and BigPond are structually seperated in the future Tomau (talk) 12:59, 23 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Large Update

As you have probably seen from the History page, today I made a large amount of edits to the BigPond page - which has now made it easier and clearer to read as well as more organised. I have also added more information to the page. Ofcourse, the BigPond article is far from being fantastic, so I invite everyone to make constructive edits on the work i've done including adding more references. cheers! Tcustomer (talk) 07:36, 3 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Another Update

I've redone some parts of the Bigpond page and added the criticism part copied from the main Telstra wikipedia article. I've also tried to remove most of the advertisment-like text and made it clearer to understand. 28 February 2008 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.169.75.3 (talk) 03:18, 28 April 2008 (UTC)