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Bob Bain wrote:
> 
> 
>  As a matter of interest are UK visitors visiting Australia offered a
> choice between the three Australian networks as I was offered a choice
> of two competing networks in the UK, and equally as important are people
> in the UK able to chose between the competing carriers as I was
> permitted to do while "roaming" in the UK ?
> 

I do not know how the status is with carriers from England, but when I
came to 
Australia from Denmark three years ago, I could access all networks with
my Danish phone (carrier Sonofone). 
When I changed to an Aussie carrier, I could only access the one
network.
Telstra at that time told me that cross connections were technically not
possible!

It seems that one or more of the aussie carriers is just not interested
in cross-connections. 
I do not really understand that, as one of the rules couls be that in
order
to connect to a different network there is a surcharge, so everyone
gains.

BTW, this was the case in Denmark, where one could connect to any
carrier
just the charges were different.

This system could make it much easier to service remote areas. It could 
even be envisaged that a third party is going to install a tower,
and rents out the air time to any of the existing carriers. 
This would be especially usefull in areas where there are few permanent
residents
and many tourists. 


Joop
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