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 seriously out of date analogue system for decades, poor pricing schemes 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Systems Engineer, AllDigital ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - AIM/Skype: therps2 ICQ: 226437340 Yahoo: origrps2 - - - - Is that a buffer overflow or are you just happy to see me? - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
