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.
The telco's bid to become an end-to-end telephony service provider remains on course, but how Optus combines its internal culture and identity with that of a debt-laden takeover target has emerged as a litmus test of its future.
Whatever strategy Telstra announced during the strategic review of its operations last week was always going to be controversial.
Competitors for the national fibre-to-the-node network tender had their last chance to submit the required AU$5 million bond to the Federal government late last week, with Macquarie yet to confirm its entry into the race.
One company claims to have beaten the government's AU$1 billion WiMax network to the punch with the first commercial launch of a wireless broadband network based on the same technology.
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