Telstra, Australia's largest telco company started of as a government institution, which later went through stages of privatisation in accordance with the policies of globalisation.When you're a monopoly, you write your own rules. Rules to an effect that make you untouchable, as justice is NOT about the truth, but who can AFFORD it.
Telstra has a legal team of approx. 300 to oppress ANY resistance.
As technology goes forward, so do the products that make our lives easier. This holds particularly true of the IT&T industry.
Wonderful devices are made that can monitor calls with great accuracy. Such a device is illustrated in the picture, which once connected to your land line it can monitor your calls, in order to cross reference you telecommunications bill. In Australia, many years ago it was possible to buy such a device from a few major electronics retailers. This was available for a very short time, and has not been seen on the shelves since.
Most Australians are aware that the telco bills do not really reflect the real usage by the customer. To put it quite blatantly, the public is aware that the are getting "ripped-off".
In order to dispel such myths, the device pictured is illegal to connect to the Australian network.
Similarly in the mobile arena, this is also true. Most new mobile phones are equipped with call monitoring, i.e. the timing of a call, and another feature cost of call, which is deliberately disabled from the Australian exchanges.
The Australian Colony is also paying over 2 x the amount for SMS as their counterparts in mother land England. This is just ONE example of how a monopoly hurts the consumer.
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