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In aus.comms.mobile Michael J <michael@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> 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.

funny that. they were TELSTRA local landlines and phoning from a TELSTRA 
landline to a TELSTRA mobile was an international call.

> 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

they could have just spent the money on installing the equipment that
would have allowed it to be a local call. but they were too tightarsed and
money grabbing to do that.

> You clearly have no idea why the network was provided, chump

you clearly weren't there. chump.

> Why the f*** would they have a service centre in a tiny little burg like
> Dili?

coz, at that time, the percentage of the population with a telstra mobile
account in dili was higher than the percentage of the population in any 
australian town??? and that was quite a lot of thousand people, can't 
remember how many now although i did know then. so that maybe people with 
telstra "prepaid" accounts could put money on their accounts - there were 
a lot of timorese people with telstra "prepaid" accounts that couldn't 
actually get to the telstra shop in darwin! (as well as a lot of 
non-timorese people, of course, but at least they had passports and it 
was conceivable they could fly to darwin to pay their fucking phone 
account!)

> You already had free customer service back to Australia!

but not free flights to fucking darwin to use it!

>> return and so they're being KICKED OUT!
> 
> They have provided a big favour to Dili with a lot of sacrifices

yeah, they were quite willing to sacrifice a potential long-term profit in
east timor for a quick handfull of grab-the-money-and-run dollars. they
were also quite willing to sacrifice the needs of timorese people - many
of whom had sacrificed themselves to save aussie soldiers in the second
world war, only to be comprehensively fucked over by the australian
government (the only government to recognise indonesian rule) in return!

"favour", my arse!!!

but fortunately the greedy scum have now been KICKED OUT, like they
deserve!