On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 05:15:44 +1000, Rod Speed wrote:

> Kwyjibo <kwyjibo@ozdebate.remove.com> wrote:
>> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:66r87gF2k4rk3U1@mid.individual.net...
>>> 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
>>>
>>>>>>>>> Since telstra got the australian infrastucture for free,
>>>
>>>>>>>> Lie.
>>>
>>>>>>> Fact.
>>>
>>>>>> Wrong.
>>>
>>>>> Nope.
>>>
>>>>>>>> Telstra, through their shareholders, paid the government
>>>>>>>> billions of dollars for it.
>>>
>>>>>>> Pity the shareholders aint telstra, stupid.
>>>
>>>>>> Try reading what I wrote, fuckwit.
>>>
>>>>> Your mindless pig ignorant shit has always been,
>>>>> and always will be, completely and utterly irrelevant.
>>>
>>>> So you reckon those billions of dollars were just a gift
>>>
>>> They werent payment for the australian phone infrastructure, fuckwit.
>
>> They were payment for the phone company which had already paid for and owned the infrastructure.
>
> Telstra the privatised company didnt own the infrastructure, the govt owned it.

So at the time of T1 (when Telstra first became partly privatized),
Telstra didn't own the PSTN?? Did the Commonwealth transfer ownership at
some later stage (and get nothing in return -- neither cash, nor an
increased stake in the corporation)?


>> No one got anything for free, stupid.
>
> Pig ignorant lie. Telstra didnt pay the govt a cent for the landline
> infrastructure.

Then what on earth did the public pay the Commonwealth tens of billions of
dollars for? Call centres, white Telstra vans, and "goodwill"?