On Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:36:48 +1000, FahMaiYahm <not@here.today> wrote:

>Nole Boaday <nobody@home.net> wrote:
>
>> >> On the 22 April 2007 Telstra Mobile will try to get onto your credit
>> >> card and your wallet
>> >> by forcing you to go from Prepay to Plan.
>> >>
>> >> I won't let Telstra Mobile put their hand in my pocket to rob my
>> >> wallet or access my credit card.
>> >>
>> >> Georges
>> >>
>> >
>> > Really where did you escape from?
>> >
>> > I'll explain it again for the less-fast here.. Telstra is NOT a monopoly.
>> > You don't have to use any Telco in this country.
>>
>> By definition, that's a monopoly you ****ing retard. You either pay
>> Telstra some where along the line, or you go without anything.
>
>I don't understand this.
>
>I have phone service and internet access, and all I get from Telstra are
>dividend statements.

and your phone service is provided on copper? by whom? do they have their own
cable to your premises, or is it serviced via Telstra cable?

your internet access is broadband? DSLAMs are located in whose exchange?

Do you really think that Telstra provide these facilities to your phone service
provider and ISP free of charge, out of the goodness of their corporate heart?
Sheesh - where do you think Telstra get the $$ to pay you divs?

Go on back to nowwearetalking.