For over a month now persons living over seas know and have got more information of whats happening in Oceania than we Australians do ourselfs regarding the earthquake in the southern coast of taiwan telecommunications cables.

I am not sure as to why we Australians are kept on being blind sighted by our own News and press services when it comes to our own Telecommunication carriers seeing how our major carrier keeps us in the dark most of the time.

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A friend of mine in the USA forwarded me this article which I found interesting reading indeed seeing how its been up dated every day in the Wall Street Journal and I believe I am right when it comes to our main Telecommunications carrier in that Telstra would not want it known too much as it would indeed affect its T3 shares down this way.

Let alone anyone having a contract with them in providing an internet or DSL service in which that service or the delivery of that service is not meeting the contractual agreements of that service due to these interruptions of service overloading due to these under sea cables being out of service.

Also the fact that we are indeed having problems in our own home front at the moment with our own communication Services in that not only is it our phones when we phone over seas but also our internet which is hooked up to the world wide web.

I think perhaps there is a lot more to all this than first meets the eye and since there does not seem to be much in the way of our own news services picking up on these storys that matter so much to each one of us here in Australia I find it odd then that some one on the other side of the world is better informed of just what is happening that we do ourselfs . This sort of tells its own story and one would wonder as to why we down here in Australia are being blind sighted by our own press.

Since a lot of cables are owned by many different telecommunication operators that even share their cables with other communication companies.

This then would indeed put Australia in the midst of it as well seeing too that we live in Oceania after all ?.

Peter D.Giles 6-January-2007.