"Paul Day" <pauls@enigma.id.au> wrote in message
news:1177798784.705736@colossus.enigma.id.au...
> On Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:21:29 GMT Michael J may have written:
>> > Nice try. But the reason I'm with Optus these days is because of what
>> > happened years ago when I was stupid enough to be with Telstra
>> > Mobilenet.
>> > Yep, you guessed it - complete system crash, hours-long outage, and all
>> > text messages lost.
>>
>> Rubbish about the text messages lost.
>
> Even though Optus themselves admitted this was the case?

I'm talking about the claim that Telstra lost the messages in their outage
years ago

>> The vast, vast majority are held by Australians, you dick
>
> Define "vast vast majority" and provide a source?

Telstra Annual reports, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, etc etc etc et
al

The breakdown of the categories of shareholders are all there. Only a small
slice is overseas held. Less than 20% from memory