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Telecommunications Telstra quick to claim broadband as infrastructure priority
Telecommunications Telstra quick to claim broadband as infrastructure priority | Telstra quick to claim broadband as infrastructure priority |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Friday, 03 October 2008 | |
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Telstra’s Group MD of Public Policy and Communications, David Quilty, has crafted together a statement on just why broadband should be the first priority, and claims that Telstra has been champing at the bit to build the National Broadband Network (NBN) for at least three years. Quilty said that: "Telstra has been trying to build the National Broadband Network for more than three years, but we have been stymied at every turn by backward-looking regulation, red-tape and bureaucracy.” Of course, with all the fighting between Telstra, the previous Federal Government, and all of Telstra’s competitors, pundits such as myself have mercilessly renamed the long-awaited NBN as the Nevernever Broadband Network, the Neverending Brouhaha Network, the Nauseating BS Network, the Nicesounding Blahblah Network and the No Broadband Network. Still, ever hopeful and absolutely convinced it has what it takes to build the NBN, Quilty unashamedly claims Telstra is the best, saying: "The National Broadband Network is a massive project, larger than the Snowy Mountains Scheme, and will cost many billions of dollars and take many years to build. It is hugely complex, with tens of thousands of nodes and more than 100,000kms of optical fibre being laid all over Australia in a fundamental upgrade of Telstra's fixed network. The National Broadband Network must be world-class and the job must be done properly from the start. "The reality is that Telstra is the only company that has the network; the financial capability; the proven record; the technical capacity; the skilled work force; the world-class vendors; and the detailed plans to build Australia's single most important infrastructure project.” What other reasons does Telstra put forward to convince the Federal Government and Australians to back it for the NBN contract and put broadband first in Australia’s upcoming massive infrastructure upgrade? Please read on to page 2. |
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