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Telstra's plans to switch on ADSL2+ across 900 exchanges throughout the country may have a substantial destabilising effect on the communications market, and alter the national carriers relationship with government and regulators, according to a report.
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Labor leader Kevin Rudd has claimed that a leaked e-mail proves the government's AU$2 billion plan to banish rural broadband blackspots is in fact a ploy to win over key electoral areas.
Australian telecoms is increasingly resembling the US during Prohibition, with Telstra as Al Capone and the ACCC as Eliot Ness.
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