On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 08:53:06 +0000, Alan Parkington wrote:

> "James Bell" <jamesbell@tellthetruthtelstra.com.au> wrote in message
> news:471c5c3b$0$30569$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>> Not new fucking news, although sycophants like Alan 'You stole my JB
>> name waaaahh' Parkington would disagree.
>>
>> http://www.theage.com.au/news/nation...940903791.html
>>> CUSTOMERS of Telstra's BigPond, Australia's largest internet service
>>> provider, have given it a resounding thumbs down, saying it costs too
>>> much, has poor levels of service and is not as quick as advertised.
>
> Seeing only 29 percent of the user base of EVERY isp is satisfied,
> hardly a fair result.
>
> If BP has such a bad business model as some claim, why does it have 47%
> of the market?

It's partly a legacy of tel$cum's monopoly. Most people in Australia have
still got tel$cum landlines - because they've always been tel$cum and, as
Australians have proved over and over again, most people don't like to
actually *think* unless they're forced to. They're already dealing with
tel$cum and when they think about getting, say, broadband, and they see
some lying advert from tel$cum about how cheap their service is, it's the
easy option - requiring the minimum of thought.