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VIRTUALISATION Watch out carriers or we'll fight you on TV: ACCAN head
VIRTUALISATION Watch out carriers or we'll fight you on TV: ACCAN head | Watch out carriers or we'll fight you on TV: ACCAN head |
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| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 26 August 2009 | |
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"Last weekend I took my 84 year old mother in law to buy a new mobile phone," said Mr Asher. "Of course she became used to the phone number that she had, so I said 'that won't be a problem we'll easily be able to get the old number ported to this one.' "Indeed before we even bought it, I phoned the company Virgin to arrange for that to be done and was told that it would all be done in two hours. "I've just confirmed now that four days later it is still not ported. "Just in that one incident it captures pretty well everything that I want to say. "This industry which is so essential to the welfare and well being of all residents of Australia has made incredible promises. Promises of connection; promises of business efficiency; promises of social engagement. Yet its performance just so consistently and persistently disappoints. "From the point of view of ACCAN, we're not going to any longer be satisfied with simply making a point where the problems are but simply instead we're going to follow those up with positive actions that we hope will lead to reform." Mr Asher sounded an ominous warning for the telecoms service providers in the audience, also singling out Telstra, saying that ACCAN plans to be a "strong voice of communications consumers." CONTINUED Page 2 |
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