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Telstra out of control (none@none.au) wrote:
: By now I assume most of the sysop community have received Telstra's
: notification of the higher charging. We now know that they abused the
: volonteer Australian BBS registry to get their list of 'victims'.

Sounds typical.

: 
: They say that one advantage available with the business charging
: scheme, is access to telstra's 'rapid response technician teams'.
: 
: Well, if every sysop in Australia rings up every second day and asks
: for a rapid response team to 'check out my lines' Telstra will get the
: message pretty quickly.
: 
: This is a hugely ill informed decision by Telstra, which will result
: in false  economy, and is a betrayal of a loyal bbs community.
: 
: It makes you wonder if we are being called upon to subsidise Telstra's
: less than satisfactory 'joint ventures' with Microsoft, and News Ltd. 

That joint venture will be the end of A LOT of things as we use them now.
They want NO competition whatsoever and will do anything they can to 
remove any.

: 
: Furthermore Frank Blount is on the record as saying:
: 
: 1. We plan to move business customers over to time charging as it will
: be cost effective for the business market, with most business calls of
: short duration etc.

They keep trying.  Why is it they've never gotten away with it so far?


: 
: 2. The offenders [in reference to extended duration local calls] are
: mainly modem and fax users.

That's an offence now is it?

: 
: If we put 1 & 2 together, Telstra's grand plan is to get all bbs calls
: onto time charging. Roll on Optus.
: 
: I don't suppose making it more difficult/costly to call your local BBS
: or ISP, would help make the currently ailing "On Australia" more
: attractive.=?
: 
: Telstra, being owned by the taxpayer,  have gone WAY beyond their
: charter, and need to be pulled back.
: 
: To finish, the quote of the week
: 
: "What's a BBS?" - Communications Minister Michael Lee, Fri 15th
: December 1995.
: 
: 
: 

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