B J Foster <bjfoster@yahoo.com.au> wrote
> Alan Parkington wrote

>> From
>> http://www.businessspectator.com.au/...D?OpenDocument

>> Telstra Chairman Donald McGauchie has hit out at the Optus-backed G9 consortium's renewed interest in building the
>> national broadband
>> network, declaring Telstra the only viable bidder.

> Telstra is planning to start in the cities.

So is labor.

> The government wants broadband in the bush.

That govt has gone, stupid.

> It's good business to pay attention to your
> biggest customer - one would have thought

Only when you noticed that the govt has changed.

>> "The new government has a view as to what they want out of telecommunications and we'll do our very best to work with
>> that," Mr McGauchie said.

> Huh?