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I don’t mind reading articles in various media outlets about Telstra… some of them bag Telstra out a bit, but generally they’re not too personal about. And more and more often, they’re becoming very educated in their writings, and not just ignorantly writing untruths about Telstra. Most journos are finally starting to understand that yeah, Telstra is expensive, but if you want the best quality, then you need to pay more for it. Simple.

But with online news publishers having the ability for any random PEBKAC (look it up) user with a keyboard and to comment on the story… far out, there’s some ignorance and arrogance in there. So many people just throwing opinions around and just having absolutely no idea what they’re talking about! Some of the comments are just full-on stabs at another user who’s put forward a positive comment about Telstra, calling them all sorts of names. And AustralianIT publishes the comments because they’re in the spirit of the story or debate (I can’t find the exact quote that they give you when you submit a comment). I struggle to sit there and read some of them because I just feel myself getting so very angry!

Anyway, AustralianIT published a story yesterday about Telstra’s bid… or rather, it was about Optus having a whinge at someone else’s bid. If I was Optus, I’d just be worried about my own bid, and wondering if I’m gonna have any of my mates left to help me pay for the costs to build it.

But I reckon people should stop whinging about Telstra’s bid. It doesn’t meet the bid requirements – so what. If it doesn’t meet them, then Stephen Conroy won’t give the tender to Telstra. Not that complicated. It certainly doesn’t require every other bidder to have their say on how Telstra are “a joke”, etc. Telstra were pretty much damned if they did, and damned if they didn’t – when they weren’t going to submit a bit, everyone was having a go at them about that. And when they did submit something, albeit short, they were slammed about that.

I still don’t understand why people are so up in arms about Telstra wanting the government to confirm they won’t be separated – if Telstra were to be awarded the tender for the NBN, and then separated again, it would severely affect the capability to rollout the tender! Not overly hard to understand. Yet the government didn’t want to talk.

In the end, if Telstra, or any other company, get the tender, it will be because they have the capability to provide the best broadband network in Australia for Australians. That’s what the whole bid is about, in case anyone had forgotten.

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