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"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote
>
>>> Its arguable that there is much point in even bothering to report
>>> telstra faults, someone is likely to report them eventually and its
>>> less that clear that when I have reported them to iinet that its
>>> actually got telstra to look at them sooner, even when its been
>>> a fault thats unique to my phone exchange etc.
>
>> Telstra are not allowed to prioritise retail faults over wholesale 
>> faults, or vice-versa, for competition reasons.
>
> I wasnt talking about that, but whether iinet actually reported
> the problem to telstra. iinet appears to make it hard for their
> monkeys to report a fault to telstra, presumably so they dont
> get false reports of a problem with the telstra system.

OK

>> By having a wholesaler and reporting them to them, you, as a customer, 
>> are just adding an unnecessary layer
>
> I cant report a fault to telstra when I'm not using them, stupid.
>
>>>> I'm thinking in order to save a few bucks, change to Telstra Homeline 
>>>> Budget (then Telstra get shafted $10 or so bucks) $19.95, and then
>
>> They dont get shafted at all
>
>>>> I'll have to pay for VoIP $9.95, but hopefully make more savings with 
>>>> 15cent Australia wide calls.
>
>>> I dont make enough calls for that to ever pay for itself.
>>> The absolute vast bulk of calls I make are local or
>>> 1300/1800 calls. It would be handy to be able to have
>>> cheap calls to mobiles, but none of the major voips have that.
>
>> Because they want the cream
>
> Nope, because no one has tried competing in that area yet.

???

Why wouldnt they try, its just a different form of long distance minutes

They dont compete because they need that cream to prop up the rest

Even wonder why calls to UK are 2c/min (etc) while F2M is 30c a min?