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Telecommunications Basslink botch-up stymies Tasmanian broadband
Telecommunications Basslink botch-up stymies Tasmanian broadband | Basslink botch-up stymies Tasmanian broadband |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Monday, 12 May 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 In a press statement responding to comments from Greens Deputy leader Nick McKim, Aird said: "simply lighting the Basslink fibre...will not improve the competitive market in Tasmania, given the commercial intent of the current owners of Basslink. The Government understands the frustration of all stakeholders. We too are frustrated but negotiations have been complicated and the Government will not accept a second-rate broadband solution for Tasmania."However neither Basslink nor a single new cable will break the Telstra monopoly: Telstra has two cables so without two new cables there could be no competitive redundant links. Opel had proposed using the Basslink cable to create this redundancy but received a stern "hands off our cable" from Aird. Now, thanks, some say, to the government's ineptitude in not locking in access to the Basslink fibre and to the shenanigans of federal communication policy, Telstra's stranglehold on fibre access to the Apple Isle looks secure for quite some time.
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