On 30/06/14 04:54, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
On 06/29/2014 02:14 AM, Basil Chupin wrote:
And with the progress of the modern society and, of course, the privatisation of the telco some years ago, it now may take some 10 days to get an outsourced techo to come out and repair a problem whereas before, when the telco was still publicly owned, and not making huge profits for the private sector yobs, getting a fault repaired would take only a day, or 2 at the very latest.
Hi Basil,
Your experience with private versus public service response is certainly counter to ours on this side of the Pacific. How does/did your government manage to do it? Competition has been proven to provide the best service experience. When has government ever been "competitive"?
BTW, I called our local cable company (Cox Communications) yesterday to arrange for an increase in our Internet bandwidth. For some reason they require an on-site visit by a technician. They gave me an option of 10 to 12, 12 to 2 or 2 to 4 PM. I chose the 10-12 option. The tech called at 9:15 to ask if he could come early. He did and we now have greater bandwidth and a higher monthly cap.
I guess you didn't bother to read the article I posted several days ago, Lew, which was: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-24528383
Is your "privatized telco" really privately owned, or is your government the monopoly telco provider and contracts with a private company to provide on-site service? If so, that just extends government ineptitude through a private conduit.
Re the above para, a quote from Wikipedia which describes perfectly what Telstra is (and you can also check it out on the Sydney Stock Exchange site): "Telstra Corporation Limited (known as Telstra) is Australia's largest telecommunications and media company which builds and operates telecommunications networks and markets voice, mobile, internet access, pay television and other entertainment products and services. "Telstra has a long history in Australia, originating together with Australia Post as a government department, the Postmaster-General's Department. Telstra is now fully privatised and has been undergoing a change program to become more "sales and marketing led" under its current CEO, David Thodey." BC -- Using openSUSE 13.1, KDE 4.13.2 & kernel 3.15.2-1 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org