"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Horry <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote
>> GB wrote
>>> Horry <horacewachope@gmail.com> wrote
>
>>>> They shouldn't, but that's not my point. My point is that that private
>>>> companies shouldn't be forced to provide unprofitable services.
>
>>> Consequences of receiving a country-wide telephone network
>>> for free do not include the right to cherry-pick which bits of that
>>> telephone network you want to operate and which bits you don't.
>
>> No-one received a telephone network for free.
>
> Wrong, telstra did with the landline system.
>
>> The Government originally owned the network through PMG/Telecom/Telstra.
>
> And Telstra didnt pay the govt a cent for that.

Yes they did. They paid back all monies given to them back to 1901, with a
commercial rate of interest