Excessive bounces on this list

[John Summerfield]

Simon Slater wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 14:04 +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>>> How do I get that information?
>>>
>>>
>> Good luck.
>>
> Thanks, I'll check that out.  We got a call from Bigpond yesterday
> selling a you-beaut superfast extra large download ADLS plan, 3 months
> free with a free dinky router.  Have'nt heard much good about Bigpond,
> but downloading F8 might be a good test for them in the 10 day no
> obligation period. I forgot to ask about churning.
> 
psst
Wanna buy some shares:-)


Check Telstra's pricing. Check how well Sol and Los Trios Amigos get 
along with the government. Check the plan to increase Sol's salary. 
Check the board's response to the recent AGM resolution opposing it.

Note to the world. Telstra is the major Australian telco, recently 
floated. It's boss's (Texan, I think) favourite pastimes are insisting 
the Trade Practices Act should not apply to it and fighting the 
government over regulation. AFAIK I can't have Telstra ADSL2 where I sit 
not (but I have it with Westnet who resells Optus) (Telstra owns the 
wire). 500 metres away I can't have ADSL at all. If I can't have ADSL2 
from Telstra here, then I can't have more than 8 Mbits. OTOH my ADSL2 
operates at about 1.2 Megabytes/sec.

This ridiculous situation arises because others (iiNet was the first, 
but Powertel and Optus do it too) install their own digital equipment in 
Telstra exchanges.

Oh, I'm in metropolitan Perth and I can see the city from my front verandah.

Two years ago, T was going to implement some long-range stuff to extend 
the reach of ADSL, but then decided not to, probably because it couldn't 
extort Optus, iiNet, Wesnet and the others.

To the best of my knowledge, this did not happen:
http://whirlpool.net.au/article.cfm?id=871&show=custom

Here's why I might not be able to have telstra ADSL2 here:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Telstra-uncaps-ADSL-broadband/0,130061791,339272143,00.htm
If I can, it's because I don't have to, I can have (resold) Optus or 
Powertel. The "regulatory constraints" mean that T must wholesale the 
service to its competitors (T owns the wire).


http://www.tellthetruthtelstra.com.au/www/365/1001127/displayarticle/1002770.html

Probably the most farcical thing of all is that, when the govt called 
for tenders to provide a nation-wide high-speed broadband network, 
Telstra deliberately lodged a non-compliant tender, to that when it 
lost, it could sue the government.

How do I know this? It lost, it sued, and when the government used the 
judicial process to go fishing, it found internal Telstra documents to 
that effect, and they turned up in court.


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John

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