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

> 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!!!

> They arent being "kicked out", it is simply that East Timor finally has a
> stable government and they are building their own phone service. East Timor
> was only ever a temporary solution for the Defence Personnel and others over
> there

bollocks. they *are* being "kicked out". portuguese telecom are taking
over running the phone network there - that's not the east timor
government. fuck knows what p.t. will be like, but they couldn't be any
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
interfet - and they must have wanted to keep operating there because they
were arguing with untaet that interfet had given them a 10-year contract.
and if they'd done a halfway decent job of it, the east timorese
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!