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[email protected] Reflections By Alan Lucas, SY Soleares Telstra Overheads Hating Telstra is a national sport, the electricity lines but without new signage genesis of which probably lies in its regarding their lower height. The worst privatisation a couple of decades ago. example was a cable so low that I could Then, as always, public outcry was totally almost reach it by standing on the dinghy's ignored by governments of the day hell thwart, yet it was still signed for the height bent on selling off our country's of the original electricity cables of over ten infrastructure. And as for Telecom, as metres! In one river alone we found six Telstra was once known, the question was such breaches of the law. why sell a publicly-owned entity that was leading in the world of communication If we, the common people, bring down an technology, was making a profit, employed overhead cable with our masts, we are thousands of technicians and, most fined thousands of dollars (one mate importantly, was obliged to be answerable copped an $11,000 fine), but optic cables, Alan to the public, not some imported CEO who apparently, can be flung across rivers sacked thousands, scrapped half our public without a statement of their lower height. me; I'm sorry but I'll have to put you on hold That was it: I gave up.