Greetings Harry,



   11-Apr-96 14:48:12, Harry Oldenhuis wrote to Sandy Fitzgerald

   Subject: Politics



   Thank you Harry for your response.



 SF>>    Well what are your thoughts on Cheryl Kernots performance todate?

 SF>>    Here she is saying how she's going to prevent the sale of Telstra,

 SF>>    where was she when the sale of both Qantas and the Comm/Bank was

 SF>>    being put through.  The silence was deafening.



 HO> At least Cheryl is having ago, here is an example for you.  My

 HO> friend went to America for 3 months holiday, wanted to buy a mobile

 HO> phone over there and send mail via Compuserve, with a portable

 HO> computer.  When he enquired he found out that you cant have a mobile

 HO> phone for the whole of America the result was he did not get one.



   Harry, I would suggest that you bring yourself back to reality.  We

   currently have operating right at this moment, right here in Aust,

   two telephone companies, namely Telstra & Optus in regards to mobile

   phones, long distant calls and shortly for local calls.  Both are said

   to be in opposition to each other.  What's more you don't need to buy

   a new mobile phone if you go from Qld into NSW or Qld into VIC or even

   Qld to WA.



 HO> After finding this out I opose the sale of Tel$tra at all cost and

 HO> everybody should do the same, at the moment I can connect anywhere

 HO> in Australia with my mobile   but when Tel$tra is sold I might need

 HO> three or four mobile phones if I go interstate, look into the

 HO> workings of the Phone system in America it is a mess.

 HO> The planes I can take,  but not the phone.



   In respect to the situation in America and the same situation

   happening here I would very very much doubt it.  You could probably

   liken the closest of that happening to what we have already have here

   now with Telstra/Optus v Vodaphone.  I for one couldn't see the

   Government allowing it.  You have to remember the the US has a

   population of some 250 million while Aust pop is around 16-17 million.



   I personally object to the proposed sale as it basically represents

   another piece of the farm being sold off.  Telstra would earn in

   profit over 4-5 years what they in-effect would get from the sale.

   It really amounts to some very short thinking.  Then after it has

   been sold what about the job of privatising it.  Thank goodness that

   it's not 100% being sold.



   Ciao for now, Sandy F.

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