"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> 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.

Lie. Telstra owned it, and Telstra Corp (the legal entity which owned the
network) existed a long time before privatisation.

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

Because the government didn't own it, stupid. Telstra did.

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Kwyj.