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Telecommunications Coonan moves to counter Telstra, again
Telecommunications Coonan moves to counter Telstra, again | Coonan moves to counter Telstra, again |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Saturday, 10 September 2005 | |
  
In her statement Coonan reminded the public of how much Telstra has benefited in recent time from Government largesse aimed at boosting rural communications. "Telstra has received close to $120 million to expand its CDMA mobile phone network, $150 million to provide untimed local calls to some of the remotest parts of Australia and Telstra is a major provider of subsidised broadband services under the Government's $158 million Higher Bandwidth Incentive Scheme (HiBIS)." Last Thursday she went into damage control mode after Telstra received widespread publicity for its comments on the unsustainability of the USO scheme. |
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