Broadband war in Australia gets vicious

Our content licensing agreement with AAP stipulates that the material must be taken down 30 days from the date of publication. Therefore this particular story, having exceeded that time frame, has expired. We apologise for any inconvenience.

AAP

Advertisement

Talkback 4 comments

    Half of Australian House holds and businesses.. Anonymous -- 03/05/07

    "But the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) objected to Telstra's proposed wholesale pricing regime, which would have been in the mid-$80 range per month for rivals."

    Yeah i can see why only half of us will get it... the other half probably wouldn't be able to afford it...
    That's real fair huh?

    FTTN Simon Goslett -- 03/05/07

    So now the roll-out is to only half the houses in Australia. If this is to be a public funding gift to Telstra then why not ensure that the first 50% of Australian houses are those in remote and regional areas rather than the ususal CBDs. There is enough population density in our CBDs to have effective competition for (high speed) broadband. It's the people in regional Australia who are always overlooked and the reason that the "free market" ideology does not work in this country for infrastructure!

    Public Support? Anonymous -- 03/05/07

    I wonder if the Telstra Mandarins realise the depth of public cynicism bought about by Sol's saber rattling and shield beating. How much public support does Telstra really have?

    Australians really don't like bullies! Sol isn't doing himself or Telstra any favours

    Credit where due. Sydney Lawrence -- 03/05/07 (in reply to #320078800)

    Please do not confuse your hopes and desires with reality. I am sure that for starters Telstra's 1,600,000 shareholders idolise Sol. I would think that the majority of Australians would realize that Mr. Trujillo, as the prime Telecommunication Expert in the world, is a great advantage to Telstra and is making every effort to bring Australia up to speed with the rest of the world in fast speed broadband.

Add your opinion

Latest Videos

Sponsored content

Power Centre - Content from our premier sponsors

Blogs

  • Chris Duckett Get extensions going in Firefox, redux
    Previously on Null Pointer we looked at getting extensions working in Firefox betas, and that was great until the fine folks at Firefox changed their minds.
  • Array How reliable is IP telephony?
    Have you ever heard a weird kind of hissing, crackling or popping noise when calling someone on an IP telephony line? How rare is the phenomenon these days?
  • Array Forget the NBN, 100Mbps is already here
    Telstra and TransACT will shortly begin offering 100Mbps broadband to many customers. By moving early, the companies have not only raised the bar for Australia's broadband services, but thrown down a challenge to a government that now faces increased pressure to deliver the NBN as promised.
  • More blogs »

Tags

Back to top

Featured