Feds target urban broadband blackspots

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    Telstra, etc. make enough prof ...Anonymous -- 11/05/05

    Telstra, etc. make enough profit to cover this themselves. Afterall, it's an infrastructure issue. Why fund the ISP's with tax money ? Just tell the Telecos to do it as a mandatory thing - they make enough profit to cover $50M (which has come out of subscriber pockets anyway). After the grand stuff ups from Telstra (Richard Li, etc.) it would be refreshing to see the Telcos forced to spend their profits IN Australia FOR Australians rather than entrepreneurial things designed to prop up the share price but which otherwise end up making a staggering tax loss - which we as subscribers & taxpayers then pay for AGAIN. I mean, really, next we'll be having free taxpayer funded swimming pools because there isn't one in my area.

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