On 10/29/18 11:27 PM, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
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 seriously out of date analogue system for decades, poor pricing schemes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.
Guys, this is NOT a political forum. Please stop trying to compare
capitalism and communism and socialism here. It's not appropriate
subject matter for this list. Take it to a political forum somewhere
else.
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