1 Jun 2011 03:36:53 AM: There needs to be a solid push to force Governments to do their bloody job and act. Vodafone is clearly struggling to provide an acceptable level of service to its existing customer base with continued network, bandwidth and coverage issues in urban areas. They need to have their telecommunications license suspended, preventing them from signing up new customers until their existing issues are resolved. If you own a taxi or a bus, if it's pulled up by transport and a defect found, it's put off the road until the defect is fixed. Likewise, telecommunications infrastructure is not a toy, but an essential service people and business rely on, yet we have no such regulations for telcos to have a minimum standard, or level of service.

These kinds of problems will only increase with the number of smartphones being used increasing steadily. There seems to be this Aussie mind-set that you can just keep on raking in the dollars, get more customers, make more profit without expanding infrastructure along with customer growth. The Aussie way of life isn't just restricted to telcos, particularly Vodafone and Optus, but Governments as well. The population grows, and along with it, the revenue base from direct and indirect taxes, yet investment back into infrastructure, such as roads, hospitals, electricity grid capacity and such lags way behind. What is is about Australia? Is this place just retarded, inhabited by morons or something? Must be, try to get a tradesman to arrive on time, for example. Seems to be the case when governments then make promises, break them, and still get re-elected (with one notable exception being the last NSW state election, a slight glimmer of hope Aussies might be waking up to reality, wither that or multiculturism is raising the state's IQ since the vast majority of immigrants arrive through Sydney).

3 Jun 2011 11:24:28 PM: @ 1 Jun 2011 03:36:53 AM:

Mate, you are a knob.