Well it looks like Telstra are having a whinge about having to be regulated by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. We’re paying far too much as it is for our broadband, the abysmal speeds we are dishing out our good dollars for and Telstra are campaigning for deregulation; you’ve got to be kidding me.  What we need to do is apply pressure to Telstra to pull their fingers out and give us a decent service with fibre to the node. This archaic system of copper lines is just not good enough and we should be expecting a lot better for the dollars we pay (we’re living in the first world aren’t we?).

I’m paying $100 a month for my internet connection and 20 dollars out of that just goes to line rental (and I’m lucky to have been able to get the home line budget plan before Telstra wised up and started rejecting consumers from downgrading their plans if their adsl wasn’t on a telstra port). Telstra already have far too much of a monopoly on the Telco scene and it is unquestionably absurd that they ought to get any more say in how fast our connections can be. It was only a few months ago when they unlocked ADSL 1 to its maximum potential and then we get slapped with extra dosh for the privilege of having what should have been a free upgrade. Good one Telstra! Ya schmucks!