Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
South Australian senator Nick Minchin has taken a swipe at the “gratuitous grandstanding” of the three eastern seaboard Premiers, calling attempts to woo the NBN Company headquarters to their own states “ridiculous.”
Senator Minchin, the shadow communications spokesman, singled out
Queensland Premier Anna Bligh for special treatment, calling her offer
of taxpayer funded sweeteners to secure the headquarters of what is
still a one-man operation “embarrassing.”
“While a board has been appointed, we don’t even know whether the NBN
company will be a large-scale employer, if it will require commercial
real estate, or acquire plant and equipment,” Senator Minchin said,
adding that the NBN Company may remain modest in size, as primarily a
project management company.
“This company is not a play thing to be sold to the highest bidding Labor premier for publicity purposes,” he said.
“A board has been appointed and I expect it will make a pragmatic
commercial decision in the event it requires a major headquarters and
its decision won’t be swayed by gratuitous grandstanding from the likes
of Anna Bligh, Nathan Rees and John Brumby,” Senator Minchin said.
On the last point, Senator Minchin and Communications Minister Stephen
Conroy may be in vigorous agreement. Senator Conroy has previously said
the location of the NBN Company headquarters would be a commercial
decision made by the board of directors.
David Bass
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