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  1. #1
    Alan Parkington
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    From
    http://news.smh.com.au/business/tels...0623-2vdk.html

    Telstra is the best prepared telecommunications operator to build and
    operate a national high-speed broadband network, one of its top executives
    said Monday.

    Telstra group managing director of public policy and communications Phil
    Burgess said the telecoms giant expects to submit its bid for the mammoth
    undertaking by July 25.

    The network will offer high speed broadband to 98 per cent of the Australian
    population and will see 4,000 technicians physically roll-out optic fibre
    across the country.

    Macquarie Capital Advisers previously planned to lead a consortium to
    roll-out and operate the network but bowed out on Friday, and is now acting
    as financial advisers to Telstra.

    Telstra's competitor is a consortium led by Singapore Telecommunications
    Ltd-owned Optus called Terria.

    The federal government has promised to provide up to $4.7 billion in funding
    to help build the network, estimated to cost between $10 billion and $12
    billion.

    "It's a huge task and we think we're the best prepared to do it," Dr Burgess
    told ABC Radio.

    He said the federal government had been dithering over the rollout for too
    long, with Telstra's previous proposal in August 2005 was turned down for no
    good reason.

    "We were never given a reason - they just stopped talking about it."

    Dr Burgess rejected claims the federal government knocked back the original
    proposal because it would not allow other telecommunications firms to use
    the network and did not provide for sufficient regional coverage.

    "We've always made open access proposals ... and there is no reason to
    believe that will change with future proposals.

    "That's just a furphy that some other people keep talking about.

    "We're willing to give access to everyone, so we're not saying its just for
    us, although in the US about two weeks ago the courts decided that broadband
    roll-outs and next generation networks should not have to be shared," he
    told AAP after speaking at a conference in Perth.

    "The point where we couldn't reach agreement was on price: they wanted us to
    sell below cost and we're not going to sell below cost.

    "We have a fiduciary duty to shareholders. It's their money we're
    investing - its not the government's money."

    Dr Burgess also said the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission was
    "out of touch with how investment are made" and needed to back off
    "micro-managing" the broadband network roll-out.

    "The ACCC wants to have its hands in everything in this country, whether its
    a railroad in the Pilbara or a broadband network," he said.

    "One thing counts to get innovation - investment - and the ACCC discourages
    investment."

    He told AAP the ACCC "insists on micro-managing when, where, the cost and
    all of those sorts of things".

    "The cost has to be reasonable but people who make the investment should be
    able to make a commercial return.

    "Infrastructure is hard.

    "Let's just get on with the building.

    "Nero fiddled while Rome burned and it didn't help Nero or Rome.

    "We need to get on with it as soon as possible ... and we shouldn't have
    somebody telling us how to do things.

    "If we do something wrong, they ought to stick it to us, but to try to
    micro-manage a new technology is a game that can never have a happy ending
    for the consumer."

    He said consumers would see the difference between high-speed broadband and
    always-on broadband.




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  2. #2
    Rod Speed
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    Re: Telstra 'best for high-speed broadband'

    Alan Poxington <[email protected]> wrote

    > From
    > http://news.smh.com.au/business/tels...0623-2vdk.html


    > Telstra is the best prepared telecommunications operator to build and operate a national high-speed broadband network,
    > one of its top executives said Monday.


    It'd be a ****ING sight more surprising if one of them said Telstra wasnt, ****wit.

    > Telstra group managing director of public policy and communications Phil Burgess


    That stupid wanker...

    > said the telecoms giant expects to submit its bid for the mammoth undertaking by July 25.


    And the govt will flush it where it belongs.

    > The network will offer high speed broadband to 98 per cent of the Australian population


    They dont have any choice on that, its a govt requirement, ****wit.

    > and will see 4,000 technicians physically roll-out optic fibre across the country.


    Only if the govt is actually stupid enough to give it to telstra.

    > Macquarie Capital Advisers previously planned to lead a consortium to roll-out and operate the network but bowed out
    > on Friday, and is now acting as financial advisers to Telstra.


    Fat lot of good that will do them.

    > Telstra's competitor is a consortium led by Singapore
    > Telecommunications Ltd-owned Optus called Terria.


    You quite sure you aint one of those rocket scientist ****wits ?

    > The federal government has promised to provide up to $4.7 billion in funding to help build the network, estimated to
    > cost between $10 billion and $12 billion.


    And it remains to be seen if anyone makes a compliant offer.

    > "It's a huge task and we think we're the best prepared to do it," Dr Burgess told ABC Radio.


    It'd be a ****ing sight more surprising if he said they werent.

    > He said the federal government had been dithering over the rollout for too long, with Telstra's previous proposal in
    > August 2005 was turned down for no good reason.


    Clearly a pathological liar. The reason it was turned down is because
    Telstra said it wasnt interested in complying with the govt's requirements.

    > "We were never given a reason - they just stopped talking about it."


    Because you clowns had said that you werent interested in the meeting the govt's conditions.

    > Dr Burgess rejected claims the federal government knocked back the
    > original proposal because it would not allow other telecommunications
    > firms to use the network and did not provide for sufficient regional coverage.


    > "We've always made open access proposals ...


    Pity that those werent what the govt said it required.

    > and there is no reason to believe that will change with future proposals.


    > "That's just a furphy that some other people keep talking about.


    Liar.

    > "We're willing to give access to everyone, so we're not saying its just for us, although in the US about two weeks ago
    > the courts decided that broadband roll-outs and next generation networks should not have to be shared,"


    Who cares ? They are completely irrelevant to our law, ****wit.

    > he told AAP after speaking at a conference in Perth.


    > "The point where we couldn't reach agreement was on price: they
    > wanted us to sell below cost and we're not going to sell below cost.


    Then you wont be getting the $4.7B, ****wit.

    > "We have a fiduciary duty to shareholders. It's their money we're investing - its not the government's money."


    Then you wont be getting the $4.7B, ****wit.

    > Dr Burgess also said the Australian Competition and Consumer
    > Commission was "out of touch with how investment are made" and needed to back off "micro-managing" the broadband
    > network roll-out.


    They aint doing that, the govt is, ****wit.

    > "The ACCC wants to have its hands in everything in this country, whether its a railroad in the Pilbara or a broadband
    > network," he said.


    And thats what our law requires them to do, ****wit.

    > "One thing counts to get innovation - investment - and the ACCC discourages investment."


    Like it or lump it, ****wit.

    > He told AAP the ACCC "insists on micro-managing when, where, the cost and all of those sorts of things".


    Thats what our law requires them to do, ****wit.

    You clowns get to like that or lump it or **** off back where you came from.

    > "The cost has to be reasonable but people who make the investment should be able to make a commercial return.


    Then you wont be getting the $4.7B, ****wit.

    > "Infrastructure is hard.


    > "Let's just get on with the building.


    You're welcome to build anything you like, ****wit.

    > "Nero fiddled while Rome burned and it didn't help Nero or Rome.


    And you fiddle with your dick and that doesnt help anyone either.

    > "We need to get on with it as soon as possible ... and we shouldn't have somebody telling us how to do things.


    You clowns get to like that or lump it or **** off back where you came from.

    > "If we do something wrong, they ought to stick it to us,


    Thats what they keep doing, ****wit.

    > but to try to micro-manage a new technology is a game that can never have a happy ending for the consumer."


    You clowns get to like that or lump it or **** off back where you came from.

    > He said consumers would see the difference between high-speed broadband and always-on broadband.


    Wota ****ing wanker...





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