They're at it again.

Lowering prices? That's anti-competitive!

This has to be an Australian tradition, something they should add to the citizen test if they want to reduce the number of immigrants to this country. "Define how capitalist competition works in Australia." Every rational attempt at an answer would automatically be wrong.

Telstra, one of the most grossly, over-expensive, piece of poo Internet service providers on the market, actually wants to lower its prices? BOOO!! That's anti-competitive! The problem? Internet, like groceries, and pretty much any consumer goods provider or service in Australia is based on a Fat-Cat sense of economy. Companies love this economy because the biggest cats nudge prices ever upwards, while reducing costs (and quality of service) downwards, leaving lots of room for "healthy competition." Except when that competition has it so easy, there is no competition. Each cat is as fat as the next, and 20% market share or 25% market share doesn't matter in the slightest. Except in Internet there are some 100+ players comfortably splitting the market. Australia is more competitive! See, we have over 100 competing internet providers! (Disclaimer: operating off of one of two networks) Dave! That's not competition, that's collusion!

And Telstra, who own the largest chunk of the network that this "competition" operates on goes and says: "They can get access to our network for as little as $2.50 a month and use their own equipment to make healthy margins," $2.50 a month?? Where the CHEAPEST plan you can typically get (where you don't get fiscally molested for not obeying a legion of conditions) is around $30/month.

Fat, fat cats.