Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote
>>> Polly the Parrot <flatulantdingo@deadspam.com> wrote
>>>> Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote

>>>>> Exactly what happened with $11.65 line rental and 25c local calls
>>>>> ten years ago. Line rental went up, and calls went down. A local
>>>>> call is 22c now, compared to 25c years ago.

>>>> Competition wouldn't have been the cause by any chance?

>>> Competition changed line rental for $11.65 to $30 in about 7-10 years????

>> Nope, the lack of competition is what did that.

> We've had heaps of competition in line rental over the years.

Pig ignorant lie. There was no competition in line rent when resellers
got shafted by telstra with that tippling in the line rent they paid telstra,
you stupid pig ignorant dunny cleaning fuckwit child.

> Cost rebalancing (approved by the ACCC) is what cuased line rental to
> go from 11.65 to 30, with calls dropping from 25 to 22c, over 7-10 years

Irrelevant to whether there was any real competition on the
line rent, you stupid pig ignorant dunny cleaning fuckwit child.

> In the last 2 years or so, line rental hasnt moved

Another pig ignorant lie.