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Samuels discriminates against Telstra whenever there's something in front of him with their name on it. Nuff said.
It was the Australian Competition Tribunal (an independent body) not the government that made the decision.
More profits & more jobs to go offshore as this incredolous Government bends over backwards to give foreign owned companies easy handouts.
Why dont OPTUS invest? NO because its easier to game the ACCC and go cap in hand!!
Like clockwork. This is gold.
Team Telstra were just defending Sol for the "racist attacks" on his heritage here -
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Trujillo-Australia-is-racist-anachronistic/0,130061791,339296626,00.htm#320138349
And whilst not condoning any rasisct slurs, even on one as diliked as Sol, I said, what about Dr. Phil's and the fanboys Singapore attacks.
And look what is posted within 10 minutes. Lmao.
Let's all have a piece of the Team Telstra cake... and eat it too. Haha
I wrote to the then minister (Alston) at the time (c1998?) when he was about to approve duplicate partial roll-outs of the Telstra + Optus hybrid fibre.
I stressed to Alston that it was "madness" to go against Australia's excellent record in terms of non-duplicated utility services - we do not require a new freight company to build a new Hume Highway to operate.... and we are too low a population spread over too large a geography to allow duplication.
I stressed to Alston that, if anything, he was better off auctioning-off rights to particular zones, on the basis of an undertaking to cable down to all centres of at least 5000 people in such zones. That would have avoided Telstra and Optus duplicate cabling wealthier medium-density suburbs, but ignoring others. And I stressed to Alston that it was leaving a regulatory nightmare by not stipulating an inter-connect pricing formula (eg X% ROI or Y% discount off lowest retail), as sooner or later, calls originated on one cable network must need to connect to people connected via the other cable network. By refusing to discuss inter-connect pricing, we put VOIP back a decade in this country.
And the mess is still a mess. And Optus now do have access to their own and Telstra's networks. Under my 10yo plan, each would have had commercial access to each other's networks. By Telstra playing hardball, it has ended up with the worst of both worlds!
But at a larger/strategic level, by fighting the access regime legally, Telstra has confirmed to the wider business community and the decision-makers in Canberra that the only way to have a rational telecomms back-bone structure in Australia is to build a new one that removes Telstra's interference in establishing a breadth of competitive broadband services. In other words, Telstra's intransigence ('We used to have a monopoly, so we are prepared to play the game only if we have monopoly rights once again') is FORCING the government (which wants a competitive market) to sideline Telstra. Sol simply misread the landscape and did immeasurable harm. The more Telstra expressed dislike for a competitive market, the more government (of both persuasions) wanted Telstra side-lined. Indeed, Telstra shareholders would have been far better off WITH complete separation of the company (like AT&T underwent), with each then holding shares in the national backbone monopoly AND shares in the retailer with largest marketshare... but on arms-length terms which prevented vertical integration (ie no lock-out to other market entrants).
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Whislt I agree that the access policy cannot be discriminatory in general, I can't be too hard to include a clause on HFC? Maybe along the lines of if you have an existing HFC asset to a particular customer, you must first use your own asset?