Mauried <mauried@tpg.com.au> wrote:
> 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.

Pig ignorant lie.

> Why should phone companies be any differant.'

Because the legislators choose to do things differently with them.

You get to like that or lump it.