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Handing Telstra a monopoly might mean there will be no upfront cost to the public, however they will recoup their money many time over.
Telstra faces some serious revenue declines. VoIP is rapidly expanding. Mobile has a lot of competition. Pay TV has some competitors on the horizon plus downloading of TV shows. Yellow pages would be losing revenue to the Internet as well.
Telstra badly needs to retain the monopoly on the last mile.
If they keep it they will hold Australia back for decades to come.
When they rolled out their coax side by side with Optus and rolled out aDSL2 to only places where competitors had a presence it was to make sure they didn't get a toehold. Telstra spent $4 billion stopping Optus with the HFC.
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Senator know nothing Coonan does nothing but repeat the same nonsense she has waffled about for months, meanwhile we go further behind on the world stage.
The government is a laughing stock but they are too dumb to realise it!