From: nobody@REPLAY.COM (Anonymous)
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 22:11:36 +0800
To: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Subject: Re: Telstra Australia admits it lied about net
Message-ID: <199710151403.QAA28893@basement.replay.com>
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Of course any stats put forward by Telstra are probably a complete 
fabrication. Telstra's arrogance exists due to its century long
tradition of government backed monopoly resulting in a drain on
Australia's resources and misallocation of capital on such a scale
it defies imagination. It is par for the course for Telstra to now be 
seeking funding from US taxpayers/consumers. (PS. I heard the same 
figures you quote below being bandied about here about a week or so 
ago.)

Bill Stewart writes:
> According to an article in today's Mercury News or SFExaminer,
> Telstra has also decided that 70% of the bits on US-Australia
> Internet connections are now going from Australia to the US
> rather than the earlier ~100% US->Australia direction -
> so it wants a major reevaluation of who pays for the
> trunks connecting the Internets in the two countries
> (currently Telstra pays most of the costs.)