Telstra price rises irk NSW schools

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14 September 2006 09:27 AM
Tags: education, line rental, nsw, phone, schools, telephone, telstra

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    There is a solution - TPAMS Anonymous -- 14/09/06

    The solution to the problem is easy. The NSW Government locks Telstra into a TPAMS "panel contract" such as they have in Victoria, underwhich all schools (and Vic Govt departments)are eligable to purchase services at a discount and at an agreed set of terms and conditions. Telstra could not dictate, the NSW Govt would.

    Shooting the defenceless Kieran Foy -- 14/09/06

    Then they came for the children.
    Social corporate responsibility in obviously an alien concept to this bundle of Howard sanctioned gangstas who have crippled this company.Mugging defenceless captive customers is fair game now for these corporate thugs.God help us all if this mob is fully privatised.Head still in the sand Helen!

    The Gov't & Telstra, aka The Mob! Rex Alfie Lee -- 15/09/06

    Who would have foreseen brutality in the form of Gov't sanctioned monopolisation bullying? Who?

    Just about everyone I guess. Lets face it, Telstra comes with a yardstick the size of Canberra to beat its drum as it sees fit. Run by the Howard-Trujillo fraternity of US-sanctioned misfits & powerplays Telstra is really a nothing company run by a nothing CEO glorified by a nothing PM.

    We might as well be America's 51st or is it 52nd state. Run by Twinkletoe's Howard, brandishing his incredible fortitude exemplified by his kowtowing to the Americans I'm sure Trujillo trembles at the thought of Twinkles describing his job description. What a joke!

    Actually, Telstra is a joke, as is their great CEO.

    Thugs at work again? Keith Styles -- 15/09/06

    Send the 3 amigo bandits packing. We don't need them holding a gun to the heads of our school children.

    Nothing will change unless the knuckleheads in Canberra (JH, NM & HC) see the error of their ways and take control of the National asset called Telstra.

    Buy it back you dickheads. It's dirt cheap right now & you've made a huge profit.

    Sell it and we wont have a Telstra run for all Australians. It will be for the profit of it's shareholders, many of them overseas. Is that what we want for our National Communications Network?

    Fair's fair Anonymous -- 15/09/06

    Either you want a bundled discount - which you recieve by bundling ALL services - OR you don't.

    The schools have that choice to make.

    But why hasn't Dept Education rolled out a VOIP network over the "private" government broadband? then there would be no cost phone calls between schools, no cost phone calls between schools and Dept Education head office, and anyone could ring any school in NSW for the cost of a local call.

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