hypocrisy?
Telstra is likely to deploy its own fibre network into metropolitan areas, although Senator Conroy would not rule out legislation against such a move…
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So just to make sure I understand this clearly… no one wants Telstra to be a “monopoly”, least of all, Stephen Conroy (who I’m loving just about as much as Helen Coonan, by the way). But when Telstra suggest plans to build their own FTTN network in competition with the one the government wants to roll out, in order to stimulate price and access and give greater broadband access to most of Australia, Stephen Conroy wants to put legistlation in to stop that? So that he can have the monopoly?
Surely there’s something I’m missing there about the sheer hypocrisy of that. Surely.
How awesome would it be if we had two FTTN networks in Australia! Why would you want to stop that?!
December 16th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
Re: FTTN
“When this process comes about, we will be engaged with our plan for FTTN – not a proposal or a concept. We have already completed a management plan, financial operating plan, engineering plan, deployment plan, and a technology evolution plan. Telstra has the whole package, and this package has been approved by the Telstra Board. We are ready to go…within 24 hours if the Government decides to accept our plan”
- Sol Trujillo (internal letter 13/07/07)
If the plan existed 14 months ago, why was it not submitted for tender? Is this a case of homework not being submitted on time?
If there were two FTTN networks in Australia?! I say, bring it on!