On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:33:34 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:

> Kwyjibo <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>> Kwyjibo <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>> Kwyjibo <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote
>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
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>>>>>>> Since telstra got the australian infrastucture for free,
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>>>>>> Lie.
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>>>>> Fact.
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>>>> Wrong.
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>>> Nope.
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>>>>>> Telstra, through their shareholders, paid the government billions of dollars for it.
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>>>>> Pity the shareholders aint telstra, stupid.
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>>>> Try reading what I wrote, fuckwit.
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>>> Your mindless pig ignorant shit has always been,
>>> and always will be, completely and utterly irrelevant.
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>> So you reckon those billions of dollars were just a gift
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> They werent payment for the australian phone infrastructure, fuckwit.

Then what were they for? The Telstra "brand"?

Check out the prospectuses for the various Telstra floats. The
infrastructure was part of the deal. The PSTN network is listed there in
the financial statements.