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The article says no such thing.
The $5B figure appears in two places, being the cost of building a broadband network in capital cities and coincidentally, the estimate of the quantity of equipment that will need to be sourced from overseas.
The $15B figure is the total cost for the NBN reaching 98% of the population.
None of the figures quoted attempted to estimate the impact of the falling dollar. The article just made the blindingly obvious statement that due to the depreciation of the dollar and the need to buy equipment from overseas, the cost will rise.
This will impact all bidders, not just Telstra.
I guess if Telstra is going to struggle I wonder about an $8 dollar shelf company like Tierra??
...and they want to borrow billions of dollars to extend a copper network they don't even own. If you were a bank, would you lend me money to build an extension on someone else's house, even if I had guaranteed 'access'?
Don't underestimate the fund raising power of the pub chook raffle. Terria could be into this aspect in a big way. Anyway I know the Members of Terria who are financial powerhouses will did deep to extend the $8 present capitalisation of Terria.
Telstra could never be found gulity of running a chook raffle - they wouldn't know how to. All they know how to do is leach money out of the Government and raise prices.
The Battler is falling in value compared to other major currencies so why is Telstra saying that their costs have risen? That can't be the case for imported equipment at this point in time. Maybe they under-estimated the impact that Sol's fat salary and all the perks enjoyed by the Amigos is having on the bottom line.
What is Telstra's new expectations for ROI?
telstra wont even fix there own infrastructure, I just spent 4 hrs battling against dispatchers, questus complaint managers and CNI co-ordinators, a customer has a broken pit in her front yard, her kid has fallen down it twice, there a retirment home down the road... telstra hasnt even looked at the CNI (infrastructure order) yet, depsite it been cat 1 (safety issue)... it has been over 5 months, so anyone who defends telstra, as an employee i can say go to hell, ur supporting the devil
union controlled employees like you would rather complain and sit on web sites attacking your own employer then getting of your fat *ss to lodge the order into the correct system
which system should i log it in? i spent 4 hrs on this case, theres an order for CNI, as put in by the tech, as they do when a infastructure job is needed, he listed as catergory 1, which was then lodged through the CNI front of house staff he lodged the case and added it to the que for the CNI co-ord to look at and dispatch (remember all this done as cat 1), normally, if telstra wanted to pay for the contractors this job would then be dispatched to service stream, who would book it for a truck roll, drive out there, and then fix it... but telstra isnt allocating the funds to hire the contractors, so this CNI, while listed as highest priority, is in a big fat long que of other things also listed catergory 1... and this que so far appears to be at minimum 5 months long... so tell me oh so enlightened 1, why isnt this getting fixed, cause well hell, theres a questus case associated with this , and 4 seperate Siamm Cases, so thats 6 different cases, each logged in the hope of breaking through the strangehold...
lol, and btw, telstra's not my employer, the agency thats contracting me out to telstra is my employer (so in other words, no union >.<)
I wan't to inform u if send me sim card from telstra i wan't $5 a month not $15 dllrs
I wan't to inform u if send me sim card from telstra i wan't $5 a month not $15 dllrs
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from 5 billion to 15 billion... yeah, only a little bit i spose, random question to telstra, a drop in foreign exchange tripled the cost? just how much money was this aussie telco planning on sending overseas?