Broadband prices under a Telstra-owned national fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network could rise by up to 15 per cent, a report commissioned by the Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC) has concluded.
Communications Minister Helen Coonan has revealed the government is considering the structural separation of Telstra as part of a planned fibre-to-the-node rollout.
After threats of structural separation seemed to loom large for Telstra last week, the head of the ACCC has added his voice to the government's in stepping back from the suggestions of a split.
Telstra has accused the competition regulator of "throwing a hand grenade" into the fibre-to-the-node debate after reports surfaced that the Commission had cut the prices the telco can charge rival providers to use its copper network.
Telstra boss Sol Trujillo has bluntly rejected the new Government's proposal for a partnership to build a national broadband network.
As Christmas roars in upon us and the Rudds, Trujillos, and Conroys of the world hang their Christmas stockings, everybody is casting an eye to 2008 and the changes it will bring.
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
If there ever were concrete evidence that Labor is blowing smoke up the proverbials of the Australian population, it came earlier this month as Senator Stephen Conroy, the man charged with promoting Labor's fibre-everywhere policy while simultaneously taking potshots at his counterpart Senator Helen Coonan, put his foot squarely in his mouth.
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