On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:26:54 +0900, Horry <horacewachope@gmail.com>
wrote:

>On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 22:55:36 +1000, GB wrote:
>
>>> Telstra Countrywide manager Jeff Booth says the company is questioning
>>> whether its shareholders should pay for everyone to have a telephone.
>>
>> Damn right they should. They got a country-wide telephone network
>> completely free-of-charge, now they get to live up to their end of the
>> bargain.
>
>Free of charge? You seem to be forgetting the tens of billions of dollars
>the Commonwealth raised by selling Telstra shares.
>
>
>>> "There is now the question before the Universal Service Obligation of
>>> providing the first telephone, there's now a question about where that
>>> half billion dollar plus burden a year actually sits" he said.
>>
>> Square in the lap of the shareholders who are busily enjoying the
>> free country-wide telephone network that they got completely free-
>> of-charge, that's where it sits.
>
>What a moron. The Government gave away all the Telstra shares did it?
>
>In actual fact, the Commonwealth SOLD its "country-wide telephone network"
>for tens of billions of dollars.
>
>
Power Companies have always been entitled to charge the full cost of
providing power to people in the bush.
Why should phone companies be any differant.'