Eleven of Australia's second-tier telcos and Internet service providers have banded together to plan a major statement in Canberra tomorrow on broadband and telecommunications regulation.
The federal communications minister has reassured rural Australia her department plans to work with Telstra and the communications regulator to ensure the bush won't be disadvantaged as the telco dumps its existing CDMA network in favour of a new national 3G mobile offering.
update: A group of Telstra's rivals known as the G9 has formally lodged their proposal for a nationwide fibre broadband network with the competition regulator.
A group of Telstra's major rivals known as the G9 have placed full-page advertisements in major newspapers in an effort to prevent a deal between Telstra and the federal government on a new national fibre broadband network.
Australia's telecommunications industry is about to see a major structural shift as it did upon the opening of competition in 1997.
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
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