[LINK] Only 4,000 homes hooked up to NBN

[Fernando Cassia]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2012 at 04:07, Kim Holburn <kim at holburn.net> wrote:
>> Prime Minister Julia Gillard has rejected the Opposition's criticism.
>>
>> "The roll out is proceeding. We did take the time necessary to negotiate with Telstra an appropriate agreement to use its infrastructure because that meant that the NBN could be rolled out more easily using pre-existing infrastructure," Ms Gillard said.

This part puzzled me. What is up to negotiate?.

Up in Spain, the CMT (Telecomms Market Commission, the regulatory body
on telecomms and competition matters) just ruled the incumbent
(Telefonica) had a dominant position, and that in order to create a
level playing field, others operators should be allowed to re-use the
existing underground infrastructure.

CMT: End of Telefonica´s underground monopoly
(CMT: Fin del Monopolio de Telefonica en el subsuelo)
http://www.publico.es/273083/fin-del-monopolio-de-telefonica-en-el-subsuelo

[Spanish language article, use http://translate.google.com]

Couldn´t the same be decreed wrt Telstra, without any "negotiations"?

And btw: in a negotiation, both sides get something. What did Telstra get?

FC