*#@!! Telstra Help

**Bob Willson** · 31st January 2007, 10:44 AM

On a slightly different note.

Originally Posted by ABC

Telstra says it will challenge the powers of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) in the High Court. It comes after a dispute between the competition regulator and the telco over the amount Telstra can charge its rivals to use its broadband network.
Telstra spokesman Will Irving says the policy undermines competition and contravenes a clause in the Australian Constitution.
"It's like the ACCC telling you you're required to rent a room in your house, then telling you you have to rent it out for $17.70 a month," he said.
"The Constitution exists to protect the rights of all Australians and under the Constitution the Government has the power to compulsorily acquire property, but it can only do so where it does so on just terms."
Telstra spokesman Phil Burgess says the ACCC's regulations are invalid.
"It's been impossible to achieve a fair result within the current framework," he said.
"The framework allows arbitrary and capricious actions by the ACCC that are hostile to property rights, that are key to jobs growth and economic development in the digital age."
The ACCC says it is satisfied with the regulatory decisions it has made and will contest Telstra's case in the High Court.

It seems to me that if Tel$tra are so sure that they are doing the right thing by others then a VERY GOOD THING would be for the whole of the infrastructure to be taken away from them and made into a separate company and then Tel$tra could buy back their requirements from that company at the prices that they consider to be fair for others and then we would REALLY hear some squeals from them.

**KevM** · 31st January 2007, 12:58 PM

Originally Posted by Bob Willson

On a slightly different note.

It seems to me that if Tel$tra are so sure that they are doing the right thing by others then a VERY GOOD THING would be for the whole of the infrastructure to be taken away from them and made into a separate company and then Tel$tra could buy back their requirements from that company at the prices that they consider to be fair for others and then we would REALLY hear some squeals from them.

Bob,
Not sure where you are coming from.

Telstra is now a private company.

I'm a share holder.

Don't attempt to regulate the value of my shares.

**namtrak** · 31st January 2007, 01:02 PM

And this thread was only 3 years old.

**KevM** · 31st January 2007, 01:09 PM

Originally Posted by namtrak

And this thread was only 3 years old.

But not Bob's posting.

**Bob Willson** · 31st January 2007, 02:44 PM

Originally Posted by KevM

Bob,
Not sure where you are coming from.

Telstra is now a private company.

I'm a share holder.

Don't attempt to regulate the value of my shares.

So Tel$tra is now a 'private' company eh?
The government sold off my share of the infrastructure of Tel$tra paid for partly by my taxes without my permission and now that it is a 'Private' company they want to rent my own property back to me at a MASSIVE profit but in such a way that only Tel$tra shareholders will benefit, while any competitors in the same market are at a huge disadvantage because they weren't given a whole country full of copper lines etc?
I don't want to regulate the value of your shares but Tel$tra is holding me to ransom for something that actually belongs to me already.
My suggestion was that Tel$tra be made to pay the same price for the hire of the infrastructure as everybody else. Doesn't this seem fair given that it wasn't theirs in the beginning

**Bob Willson** · 31st January 2007, 02:52 PM

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**KevM** · 31st January 2007, 09:43 PM

Originally Posted by Bob Willson

So Tel$tra is now a 'private' company eh?
The government sold off my share of the infrastructure of Tel$tra paid for partly by my taxes without my permission and now that it is a 'Private' company they want to rent my own property back to me at a MASSIVE profit but in such a way that only Tel$tra shareholders will benefit, while any competitors in the same market are at a huge disadvantage because they weren't given a whole country full of copper lines etc?
I don't want to regulate the value of your shares but Tel$tra is holding me to ransom for something that actually belongs to me already.
My suggestion was that Tel$tra be made to pay the same price for the hire of the infrastructure as everybody else. Doesn't this seem fair given that it wasn't theirs in the beginning

Bob,
You've lost me still. We the shareholders, paid the government for their (your) equity in the company when we bought our shares.

The Goverment now has been paid for what was your share of Telstra.

Telstra is only attempting now to give me a return on my investment.

cheers

Kev

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