[LINK] Canberra Times - Telstra Hits The Rough - 23 Jun 07

[George Bray]

In a dearth of weekend reportage on the broadband events last week
many Linkers might not have seen this article in the Canberra Times.
As it's not online to point to, I've converted my dead tree version
into PDF.

The article contains some analysis of the Govt plans for FTTN &
wireless, and how that affects the T$ monopoly. It suggests that the
Govt's invitation for an international telco to overbuild Telstra's
fibre network would be good for long term competition, and Telstra's
role might be relegated to being a customer, not a wholesaler.

This article is also the first place I seen that the OPEL $billion is
as good as spent, and the Government's broadband plan is not an offer
for the electorate to judge the opposing plans at the upcoming
election. I had a feint hope that this expert group would be analysing
the Telstra, Labor and Liberal broadband plans.

I hope the attention and analysis about national broadband performance
continues. In any case, it will be remembered as the issue "just
before" Howard's sudden Aboriginal rescue.

George


The telco giant finds it can't have broadband all its own way,
Economics Editor PETER MARTIN writes.

Telstra Hits The Rough  (280kB PDF)
<http://uctv.canberra.edu.au/downloads/CanberraTimes-TelstraHitsTheRough-23Jun07_web.pdf/view>



-- 
George Bray - University of Canberra, Australia