Michael J <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>> Friend there had a property he went to every 6 mths or so.

>>>> TELSTRA supplied an Incontact service to the house - no one else would. Free incoming landline.

>> The installation was never free, its just free of monthly rental charge.

> Correct. Thanks for spelling that out.

> Most InContact customers downgrade from a paid service - no connection fee applies.

Someone would have paid for the original installation, so that was never free.

> Telstra generally doesnt charge connection fee for incontact for an inplace service - generally
> only for a new connection

Someone would have paid for the original installation, so that was never free.

>>> So, they were a GOC then, that was their duty,

>> No it wasnt.

>>> and we paid for it though our taxes.

>> No we didnt. Telstra was paying the govt a 'dividend' right thru that period when InContact was
>> available.

>>> Think they'd give a fuck now?

>>> A: No.

>> Wrong, as always. An InContact service allows them to make
>> money from the calls made by others to that service, stupid.

> True, but not much revenue in that pot

Wrong, and its better than no revenue at all anyway, stupid.