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'Unacceptable': Experts say Optus coverage outage could happen again
(www.abc.net.au)
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This is a bit of an interesting point: A significant proportion of Australians - something in the pallpark of 40% of us rely on Optus every day. This makes Optus a fairly essential pillar of infrastructure in Australia. Yet, they're a private company and can do pretty-much whatever they like.
When you stop to think about it, a few private companies really impact us. Imagine if Coles and Wollies were to not be available for a while. Twelve hours wouldn't impact us much, but a week? We would have serious societal problems.
We would be forced to buy from Aldi, IGA or Foodworks.
We would also probably realise how much the Duopoly has been bending us over and Coles and Woolies would start haemorrhaging customers.
I honestly don’t know why anyone uses BigPond or OptusNet for NBN internet. Every single other independent ISP provides better quality of service, better pricing and better technical support.
Although Mobile Coverage is another story. Belong and Amaysim customers don’t get network priority over Telstra and Optus’ customers.