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Let me translate the "above" - Let the bludge on Telstra continue & hold back progress for all Australians whilst only SINGTEL/OPTUS laughs all the way to the bank!
What we need is True Competition not regulated OPTUS sponges off!!
What we need is true competition, not the monopoly player demanding exorbitant charges and continually acting to prevent competition.
Last time I checked, companies buying wholesale services from Telstra had to Pay for them...
where is the BLUDGE in that?
AT BELOW COST price!!
Telstra wholesale is a profitable part of Telstra Corporation so therefore it is not selling products at below cost ...
What it is doing is being forced by the ACCC to sell services at a cost that makes it uneconomical for companies like Optus, Internnode, Powertel (and many more) to invest money in many areas of the country as they could buy services from Telstra at cheaper rates.
If Telstra was originally given the freedom to charge as they please then many companies would have built networks quicker to avoid paying the higher Telstra rates. In the early days communications prices would have stayed artificially high but once these other companies built their networks then the prices would have dropped faster and lower then what they are today.
We would have better technology available and we wouldn't be taking about handing the equivalent of $1 every month for every man woman and child in the country to a private company for the next 20 years to build a network we should already have.
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Yes lets separate all the wholesale from the retail. Make it a carrier licence condition.
I suggest any holder of a carrier licence who resells its services on a wholesale basis to anyone - should be required to have a wholesale arm and a retail arm.
And lets go further - lets get all ISP's to do the same.