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"Michael J" <michael@yahoo.com> wrote in message news:PTb9a.60393$jM5.154599@newsfeeds.bigpond.com...
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> <will@xxxx.swaggie.net> wrote in message
> news:Zei7a.5$zt2.2224@nsw.nnrp.telstra.net...
> > In aus.comms.mobile Michael J <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> > > East Timor is a completely different country, requiring satellite links
> both
> > > ways to carry the calls. Very high density personnel working in the
> areas
> > > and high call volumes.
> >
> > bollocks. it was because there were quite a few thousand tel$cum mobiles
> > in dili and not enough towers. and tel$cum were too tightarsed and
> > moneygrabbing to put any more in. they were also too tightarsed and
> > moneygrabbing to link the mobile network up to the landline network -
> > meaning that a call from a landline in dili to a mobile in dili (or vice
> > versa) was an international call!!!
>
> Thats because you are calling TELSTRA MOBILENET, which is an AUSTRALIAN
> BASED MOBILE NETWORK.
>
> Telstra could have set up "DiliNet" or whatever you want to call it, but
> then Aussies calling DiliNet and vice versa would be paying int. rates
>
> You clearly have no idea why the network was provided, chump
>
> > worse than tel$cum, who couldn't even be fucked having a customer service
> > centre there. it's true that tel$cum were originally contracted by
>
> Why the f*** would they have a service centre in a tiny little burg like
> Dili?
> You already had free customer service back to Australia!
>
> > government probably would have kept them on. as it is, they've taken every
> > cent they could get their grubby little hands on and given nothing back in
> > return and so they're being KICKED OUT!
>
> They have provided a big favour to Dili with a lot of sacrifices

What was sacrificed ?  Chickens, small children, dogs ?