Subject: Re: Go Aussies
From: Michael Gillson (Michael_Gillson@chugachelectric.com)
Date: Tue Sep 09 2003 - 07:39:07 AKDT
When I was in Australia 3 years ago, Telstra was everywhere.
I would not call the company lame. Monopoly is a good word.
I also would not put all the blame on Telstra. The politicians have
also caused some of the problems.
People in Australia are very much into cell phones because a land line
phone costs more to use than a cell phone.
There are so many charges for using a phone in your house.
For a cell phone, only the caller pays for air time. The call receiver
pays nothing. Also, cell phones have a slot to insert
like a memory card which is the amount of call time they have. These
cards are bought at stores like 7-11.
Australia has a lot of strange politician driven rules. Telstra is a
"regulated" monopoly which means politicians think they know best and
create some weird situations.
>>> Jim Gribbin <jgribbin@alaska.net> 09/08/03 10:13PM >>>
I've seen them mentioned on the ipcop and e-smith lists more than
once.
Seem to be a lot of problems with their service, mostly customer
relations. Seem to be a good example of the problem with monopolies.
Jim
On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 16:15, Troy Melhase wrote:
> On Monday 01 September 2003 23:08, W.D. McKinney wrote:
> > From /. the article about Telstra using Linux. Nice to see a ILEC
> > getting with it :-)
> >
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,7136841%5E15306%5E%5Enbv%5E
> >,00.html
>
> For whatever it's worth...
>
> When slashdot ran this story last week, the comments made it clear
that
> Telstra is one lame company, and that the move to Linux on their part
was
> because they found a way to screw their customers by using it.
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