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Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> 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,

Because it costs them a lot more to call those numbers.

> its just a different form of long distance minutes

A much more expensive form.

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

Nope, they dont compete because those calls cost them much more.

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

Because it costs them a lot more to do the calls to mobiles, stupid.