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VIRTUALISATION Telstra tells Coonan: hands off our new 3G network
VIRTUALISATION Telstra tells Coonan: hands off our new 3G network | Telstra tells Coonan: hands off our new 3G network |
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| by Stuart Corner | |
| Friday, 28 April 2006 | |
  
In a statement the company said: "This would mean that investments in major new telecommunications technologies and services may be regulated identically to the old copper network; Telstra's legacy infrastructure. It would also mean the application, for the first time, of intrusive and value-destroying regulation on a single company in the already highly competitive market of mobile telephony - making Australia the first developed nation in the world to impose access regulations in the mobile space. "These kinds of regulations consistently undervalue Telstra's network investments, forcing Telstra's shareholders to subsidise the operations of the company's foreign and domestic competitors." Telstra said it was seeking "urgent clarification from the Government that its new 3G network will not be regulated". Telstra wholesales services on its current CDMA network to Hutchison (to provide roaming for its Orange customers outside Hutchison's own spectrum areas) and for resale by Optus, AAPT and others. According to the Financial Review, the resellers have been told that wholesale access to the new 3G network will not be available. Hutchison is planning to phase out its CDMA service. |
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