My phone rang today at 1305 hrs and as i was nearby, I immediately answered only to discover that I had been placed on hold,with moronic recorded message from some guy with an abysmal American accent.His message told me that "'we' know how important your time is and although there might be a short delay in answering your call, it is very important to us and we want to speak with you personally. We will be with you briefly". This was followed almost immediately by another recorded message this time from a female with an equally abysmal American accent. She told me a different but equally moronic and insulting message and assured me that all of their customers receive the same personal service and 'my call' would be answered shortly. I was doing other things so I had the phone on speaker because i was intrigued to find out what organization could be so incompetent in their search for new customers. The 2 recorded messages were replayed constantly with a pause of about 8 seconds between each. This went on for 25 minutes until young sounding man came on the phone to talk to me. He had an extremely heavy accent and I had to get him to spell out all the words that he spoke to me. By and large I did all the talking and asked him a sequence of questions. What was the company name? A. Astron. Where was the company? A.1/3 Victoria Ave Chatswood (Sydney). What was the company involved in? A. Telecommunications. I then told him what had happened with the call and that I could noty believe that any company could attempt to conduct its business in such an incompetent (and probably unlawful) manner. I told him that I would make a formal complaint and intended to take up the matter with the appropriate authorities. He hung up.

Tony you're a bloody beauty! I will be harrasing that number as much as they do me... idiots!

they are not a scam I use them for my nbn connection they are pretty cheap actually.

Called back using reverse look-up - thanks guys for having the list of complaints...
Here's one more...
The number was answered by a foreign sounding female and she said I must have been called by their telemarketing group.
I wish they would understand some people sleep in the day and have answering machines for this purpose. Anyway now that I know - they will never be able to get a sale out of me.
The number has been blocked from my phone...
Good day to all... Debbie

I have been getting calls from these people 2 & 3 times a day for more than a month. I resent having to have a customer wait while I answer a call and then they hang up.
On the occassions when they do answer they will not listen when told I do not wish to deal with them. Today I actually hung up on them.

I have been getting calls from this number several times a day for the last week. I never answer (thank you, CND) but it is very irritating.

These guys are harrasing me, they wont give me a break, they keep on calling and never stop

Have had several calls in England over the past week from this number 0061-0282069888.  After a recorded 'goodbye' they hangs up.  Why do they bother us?

I let them listen to music and hope for telstra to collect call cost from them

Someone should do something about this company, its harassment what they are doing

Had missed calls from this number - its Astron Communications,

Sure Mark, everyone here has been setting up a conspiracy agaisn't a company we never heard of.  You caught us.. Shucks. We've been sprung.. We all get together for tea and scones once a week and pick a company to whine about.. I dont deny the way you explained their method should be working. But Honestly, If so many people over so long a time are having the same complaints. Doesnt' that tell you something..... like it's not working the way you claim it should be?

"Highly Impossible"?????

A company that has a past track record of breaking the rules???

Just some light reading for you: http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/_assets/main/lib ... undertaking.pdf

Like i said... They (possibly you??) did it before, you really think they wont do it again??

to suggest that this blog is "incorrect and laughable" suggests to me that you really are out of touch, but then you worked for astron. Perhaps this is indicitive of the entire staff??