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I agree with Anonymous, as I've said elsewhere, these cowboys think they can waltz in here, practice the questionable tactics as they have already done in the US telco industry , and expect the public here to swallow this tripe. Well I'm afraid Australians will not accept this behaviour, and are saying so quite emphatically, The shareholders who perhaps innocently grabbed Telstra shares T3 were ignorant of the fact that the Government also sold the backbone of the terrestrial communications of Aus, and since have been giving the nod to the CEO's, understandably to protect their money. Well, to those shareholders, get rid of these "guys". Errr...thankyou
So, Telstra will "stay in" if a decision is made by next month. Even if it's not in favour of them??? Unlikely!
Translation: take what we're offering (which will screw you) else we'll do our best to screw you (anyway).
Telstra broadband threat
We live in a rural area.
In order to get broadband at a reasonable price we formed a co-operative wireless broadband network and did a deal with an ISP.
The ISP leases a link to a fibre network and distributes the last %u2018n%u2019 miles to us by wireless from there.
So our broadband service never goes through the Telstra network and its reliability is excellent.
I think it%u2019s important for political decision makers to realize that everyone is NOT dependent on using Telstra for the %u2018last mile%u2019.
Technology now gives us alternatives.
Due to the governments ineptitude, we now have a laughable but serious situation.
Senator Coonan has absolutely no idea how to deal with the problem she, her predecessors & the PM have all helped create!
Greed has produced a situation which Senator Coonan has no hope of solving. The dilemma REQUIRES the Telecommunications Act to be rewritten forcing the separation of Telstra Wholesale and Telstra Retail. She attempted to do this last year, but failed, miserably!
Other countries saw what was necessary and had to be done, too ensure their National Telecommunications asset and infrastructure, paid for by their citizens, from taxes, remained within their control.
Our PM, Treasury, Finance and DCITA ALL dithered and avoided making the hard decision. All they could see, collectively, was the dollars they could use to get them out of their Super fund dilemma. For too long, they ignored the accumulating unfunded debt, which they've hidden for years, until finally they gave in to the only large and easy source of funding available....The T3 sale.
Oh what a mess we now have! No deal with the Telstra Amigos is worth the cost to all Australians.
I for one, cannot afford to pay Telstra's prices for internet access, whether I lived in the middle of the city, or the middle of nowhere.
Although Telstra does not care one little bit whether they have my business or not, because there are still many others who are either rich enough, or stupidly patriotic enough, to pay through the nose.
The stupid thing about all this is, whether it is Telstra or G9, they are still carrying on as though fibre to the node is the latest thing, while overseas, they are going the whole hog, and installing fibre to the home.
So at what point will Telstra or G9, whoever, tell us to cough up a considerable amount more to setup this new improved, but still outdated by world standard, internet access.
Go home Sol, Phil, et al, we don't take kindly to your belligerent politicising rhetoric. You do the Telstra employees who do all your work for slim pickings no favours. The public take it out on them and what can they do? Sack you? Take your millions in overpayments and go home now. We'll all breathe a sigh of relief.
Greg J....I am sure you would breathe a sigh of relief if Sol, Phil & Co would fade away but it's not going to happen. Stay and fight Sol and show these freeloading bludgers the true Aussie spirit to struggle and win.
Perhaps it is time for the Government to just move past Telstra and the old copper network. It is time to form a FTTH consortium, with money from the Telstra sale used to create a completely new network, basically government funded, but it can also include private investors. With federal government assurance of access for laying the fibre and a proper investigation of creating a cost effective ntework with access for all.
I say - CUT TELSTRA LOOSE. I am sick of the monopolistic attitude and the disgraceful industrial relations record of Telstra.
ABC's Four Corners program showed the facts last Sunday and, quite frankly, I have to say that I do not have anything in common with their American management or management style.
If Optus can win the tender without the political point scoring, then let them have the business. Let's move on !! Telstra failed.
Here in Taree Telstra have applied for rezoning to residential of their depot ,out of which they are moving. This land was bought by the taxpayer and Telstra are wanting to make a 100% profit on land they got for nothing. We don't want yet more houses and want to join the land to our park. But $ol thinks only of his pocket and refuses to take any notice of my several letters.
Get your facts straight.
The government has recovered every cent invested into the PMG, Telecom and Telstra since federation, the company owns the assets and shareholders own the company.
When the government sold off the Commonwealth Bank and then they started selling their unused assets did you complain they were selling taxpayer assets?
If your letters are based on the same nonsense you have written here I am not surprised he has not wasted his time in replying.
If "anonymous" would care to put his name and interest in his letter I might deign to reply.
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This is just shameful. Telstra are playing a games with our Government, knowing full well it is an election year. These schoolyard bullyboy tactics are fit for 5 year olds, not corporate executives. Telstra shareholders should do themselves a favour...send Sol and his amigos home before your company becomes more of a laughing stock than it is already.