Communications a thing of the past for the poor

With Telstra ripping off just about everyone, especially the poor, it is pertinant that the next article is evidence of their lack of care for the downtrodden in our society!

TELSTRA has rejected claims it has a secret plan to remove 8000 pay phones before the next federal election.

Fairfax newspapers yesterday reported that Telstra had a plan to cut as many as 8000 pay phones, as payback for the Government's criticism of the telco.

A Telstra spokeswoman today said the claim was wrong.

"Telstra has no new plans to remove pay phones," the spokeswoman said.

"Telstra communicated all its current plans to the community in February."

Telstra announced in February that it would take away more than 1000 of its 32,000 public pay phones by the start of next year.

Just buttering up the public so after the election they can remove as many as they want! And Mr Howard in his scheming ways is most probably a big part of implementing the plan to remove pay phones by making telstra wait till after the election.

So with our communications systems sold off to overseas interests and Australia at war with at least five countries at the moment, why not give the enemies of the country our communications systems? Makes it easier to be invaded!

But even more concerning from a safety aspect is the switch in the home to electronic cordless phones that don't work with a power outage! And you cannot purchase a standard phone with a cord in many places at all so with a power outage from fire, explosion, natural disaster or invasion/bombing there will be no way of communicating especially when the public phone system doesn't exist anymore.

Regards
Daniel