Australia: Optus Makes Bush Payphone Offer
An AAP newswire article, via Australian IT, reports that:
Optus has thrown the bush a life line with an offer to take over the running of payphones.
Telstra this week said it planned to dump up to 5,000 of its 32,000 payphones in a bid to trim costs in the lead-up to its full sale.
In a letter to Communications Minister Helen Coonan, Optus chief executive Paul O'Sullivan offered to take over the payphones under its legally binding public commitment, the universal service obligation (USO).
Telstra receives about $70 a million to cover its USO dealing with about 7500 payphones.
posted by Fergie @ 2/21/2006 06:43:00 PM
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