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AU Mobile Operator Optus Blocking Paid Android Apps
APC Magazine details how Optus, an Australian mobile phone operator, has for months been deliberately blocking access to Android paid apps. "Optus is the exclusive Australian mobile carrier for the HTC Dream and Samsung Galaxy Android phones, and yet people who signed a long-term contract for these phones have to date been blocked from buying paid Android apps and getting the full Android experience. ... APC found many angry and frustrated comments on the Whirlpool community forums by Optus & Virgin Mobile customers." The article speculates, reading between the lines of the opaque comments offered by both Optus and Google, that the carrier is "demanding a cut of the sales revenue from Android apps if it is to remove its restriction on accessing them."
Optus was never a monopoly. I believe you mean the govenment owned telstra (formerly telecom). You're either not Australian, not old enough to know the history, or too ignorant to be making comments.
So, which is it?
Being a grammar/spelling Nazi is the last bastion of a losing argument. That and I've been playing too many games of late.
Also preempting the inability of forming a cogent response is the height of arogance.
What can the Australian populace do about this sort of predatory behaviour? Simple. Put down the beer, turn off the damn sports channel and learn about the issues. Take issue with this kind of behaviour and actively seek help from institutions such as th ACCC and the telecommunications ombudsman.
Your quick tempered autism impresses no one.