For a long time I thought I was the only one having trouble with Telstra, and that the TIO was an independant government body who would sort this out fair and quick.

Not so, after many months of hearing and reading Telstra horror stories I have come to believe that Telstra is an unstoppable giant criminal rogue with the TIO as a complaints buffer.

Telstra's first and foremost crime against the Australian people is overbilling which is extremely common and widespread. In 2005 there where 50159 Telstra complaints lodged at the TIO alone, nearly 964 complaints a week. That is astrinomical, one wonders how many complaints Telstra themselves received - one million perhaps?

I have set up an independent hard hitting website, it is 4 weeks young and has 18215 hits to date, the horror stories are flowing in amongst which is this bit of info; Telstra has borrowed five hundred million euros in the UK early this April 2008.

I do not know if one is allowed to post websites here, there is one way to find out I guess, I hope this is ok; http://groups.msn.com/Farang/homepage.msnw [1]

I am not some political activist, just a simple Internet Cafe Owner who has been done over to much by the likes of Telstra and others to much and I am not alone.

 Cheers all!

Henk