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[Jan Whitaker]

At 09:20 AM 3/03/2009, stephen at melbpc.org.au wrote:
>One can well imagine Telstra trying to duck line-maintenance in future.

Do you mean maintenance or repair? As I understand it, they only do 
repair now, and sometimes that takes days to accomplish. Would it get 
worse if Telstra wasn't the landline provider? Well, since the 
customer is then the ISP, maybe there is more clout than the 
individual home customer would have anyway. Maybe the ISP hires it 
done and sticks Telstra with the bill. Just an idea.

One of the real problems is loss of communications should power go 
out, yes? I remember during the power outages there were discussions 
about the handsfree phones being useless and when batteries ran out 
on mobiles, ditto. At least with the good ol' landline phones that 
take power from the line, there is communication. I have four, not a 
hands free in sight.

Jan



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