So I have a new phone, it’s a HTC Wildfire S, a lower tier “smartphone”. It’s a pre-paid unit locked to the Telstra network that came with a SIM with $10 of credit. I used the phone to ring Telstra to activate the SIM. And it cost the $10 that was on the SIM. WTF!!!!! Nice service Telstra, charging people to activate their SIM. Just deplorable.

More on the phone and why I bought it at a later date. Oh, Telstra, you suck!