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When will the American who is running Telstra realise that Australia is NOT the US? So what if Optus is foreign-owned? I bet he wouldn't be saying that if Optus was US-owned. Further, Optus has been running ALL of Australia's satellites [inc. defence satellites] for over a decade.
Its time Sol realised that using his American tactics and antics, simply do not wash here in Australia.
Optus/Elders won purely for two reasons - offering a fair deal to ALL telcos, and a cheaper pricing.
Live with it Sol! Or Leave.
telstra have had eternity to provide real broadband and it has never come close. even those of us who have broadband are stuck with slow speeds. i'm glad that we're giving another company a go at it.
So - Sol thinks that WiFi is unproven. Maybe it is indeed on the cusp, but it's being driven by a far better company (Intel) than Sol could ever drive.
I do wish that we could get rid of Sol and his American cronies and get some good Aus common sense back here.
Of course it would be nice if a 100% Australian company was doing it, but seeing as Telstra has proven time and time again that it can't be trusted, I'd much rather Optus.
Example - Telstra has been screwing Tasmania on the cost of Bass Strait transit for years - charging more for it than for Sydney-Tokyo traffic. When ISPs brought this up, they could have re-thought their pricing and offered something more affordable - but no, they decided to be arrogant and keeping on shafting Tasmania. Now OPEL is creating an alternate backhaul solution for Tasmania.
Telstra have brought this on themselves. If Telstra didn't give people so many great reasons to NOT use them, there wouldn't be a need for others to create alternatives.
My 1st experience with Telstra's monopolistic attitude was back in the 80's when they told me to wait 6-12 months for a phone service. Over the years I took up competitors services as deregulation happened.
Telstra won me back once, only to screw it up with gross beaurecratic bungling.
Now, all I see from Telstra is government bullying and a disgraceful IR record (ABC Four Corners). I think that the government's plan is the ideal opportunity to cut Telstra and their crumbling infrastructure loose. Australia needs forward looking, competitive and responsive telcos.
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Do not trust Telstra, I much prefercthe optus deal, Telstra isn't even Australian though! It's american, and who really trusts america these day? I put my trust in Singapore.