Michael <michael@yahoo.com> wrote
> thegoons <thegoons@bigpond.com> wrote

>> Just goes to prove that Telstra has become an irrelevant telco wholesaler.

> Then let them behave like a wholesaler, that is, let them "cherry pick" like everyone else.

It aint wholesalers that do that, its retaillers, stupid.

> This means they can enable ADSL2 on all their ADSL1 exchanges within a month.

Nope.

> They can do FTTN without anyone else buying it.

No they cant, because they are using the national network that we paid for to do that.

> Theyd be very happy

Taint gunna happen, you watch.


>> "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
>> news:5lqcgqF9govqU1@mid.individual.net...
>>> Alan Parkington <parkingtona@team.telstra.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> From
>>>> http://www.smh.com.au/news/business/...486137175.html
>>>
>>>> TELSTRA could end up building the $8 billion broadband network
>>>> federal Labor has promised to deliver if it wins government.
>>>
>>> Unlikely that Rudd is actually that stupid.
>>>
>>>> The chief executive of Telstra, Sol Trujillo, said late last week
>>>> Telstra would examine Labor's plan for a public-private
>>>> partnership with one or more telcos, in effect a
>>>> re-nationalisation of the phone network.
>>>
>>> No it aint, just the broadband network.
>>>
>>>> Telstra could consider bidding to build the network and open it on
>>>> a commercial wholesale basis if Labor wins the election.
>>>
>>> And its unlikely that even Rudd would be stupid enough to buy that.
>>>
>>>> Alternatively, Telstra could follow the lead of British Telecom
>>>> and set up a separate corporation in which it, the Government and
>>>> other investors would share costs and profit.
>>>
>>> And its unlikely that even Rudd would be stupid enough to buy that.
>>>
>>>> Mr Trujillo said he did not reject the broad principle of Labor's
>>>> platform,
>>>
>>> What an arrogant fool.
>>>
>>>> but the detail would need to be clarified before committing
>>>> Telstra or shareholders' money.
>>>
>>> They're gunna spend the taxpayer's money, fool.
>>>
>>>> "Building a national network [of the kind Labor proposes] would be
>>>> many times more complex [than building the mobile network, Next
>>>> G]," he said.
>>>
>>> Must be one of those rocket scientist fuckwits.
>>>
>>>> The critical issue for Telstra is that it already has a fibre optic
>>>> network linking its phone exchanges across Australia.
>>>
>>> And Optarse already has a fibre optic network of its own.
>>>
>>>> It would be expected to argue that duplicating or overbuilding
>>>> part or all of its infrastructure would not make commercial sense.
>>>
>>> Irrelevant to what Labor is planning to do.
>>>
>>>> Telstra is also likely to expect a Labor government would
>>>> compensate it for using some of its existing network.
>>>
>>> It can expect whatever it likes. It gets to wear whatever they
>>> decide to do.
>>>
>>> In spades with Howard's govt once it gets reelected.