On 10/29/18 10:30 PM, Tim via users wrote:
We have a prime example in this country of Telstra (a phone
company).
They bugger everyone up, customers and systems, with the you'll have to
put up with it, or go to one of the small number of highly similar
competitors. So, no, market forces don't keep them in check. We had a
seriously out of date analogue system for decades, poor pricing schemes
and features, poor complaint handling, etc. We have the NBN broadband
disaster because Telstra deliberately refused to keep their network
updated with modern standards, because they didn't want to*have* to
share it with competitors. It was a screw everyone approach, because
they weren't going to be allowed to be monopoly. Year in, year out,
it's been proved that all their care about is their market worth, not
the customers that pay them.
Time for Anti Trust laws to kick in. Bust them up into five
or more companies.