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You are right, and well said. The idea that the people who go to work in the factories and offices of the big cities need to subsidise the telephone services of the people in 'the bush' is absurd. Try buying a viable rural property for under a million dollars. The landscape is covered with millionaires. These are the people that everyone is subsidising to have cheaper phone calls. The arguments in favour of this subsidy are nothing but self-interested hype. Someone told me today that if people weren't forced to subsidise the telephone services of the people in the bush, 'there'd be no-one there' and 'we wouldn't have any food'. Pretty bad eh? That's the atrociously low level at which the debate is being carried on.
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