🚀 go-pugleaf

I think it's mad that regardless of which carrier I choose there are places
where my carrier has no coverage but my phone would work fine with another
carrier if roaming were allowed. No carrier has perfect coverage everywhere
even in the cities.

And the competition argument is nonsense. Telstra and Optus had plenty of
competition on the analogue network which they shared. Most customers
neither knew nor cared whose network it was.

I say that if you put up a couple of billion dollars of Australian
government funds to build a network it should be open to all Australians.

Peter Bowditch wrote in message <34c505cb.40207923@news2.pegasus.com.au>...
>Tom Worthington <tomw@acslink.net.au> wrote:
>
>>I just noticed that the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission
>>(ACCC) was conducting a public inquiry into whether to "declare" services
>>allowing intercarrier roaming between existing and new digital mobile
>>networks.
>>
>>"...roaming can enable the customers of a new mobile carrier in the 1.8
>>GHz band in a metropolitan area to use an existing GSM network where the
>>new network has no presence, such as in regional or country areas."
>
>So now if I spend a couple of billion dollars building a GSM network,
>someone else can come along, put up one tower, and I am forced to let
>them use my infrastructure to say they have universal coverage?
>
>Is this the same ACCC which would not let someone buy Australis
>because it would reduce the number of pay TV operators in the country,
>so it let them go broke and there are fewer pay TV operators in the
>country?
>
>Is this the same ACCC which would not let Wattyl (an Australian
>company) buy Taubmans but was happy for a South African company to buy
>Taubmans?
>
>Have we gone mad?
>
>
>........................................................
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