Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> 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.

No they didnt.

> They paid back all monies given to them back to 1901, with a commercial rate of interest

Pig ignorant lie.