"Alan Parkington" <patriot@iheartaustralia.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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.
>
> In an exclusive KGB Interrogation, Mr McGauchie told Alan Kohler, Robert
> Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz that Telstra was the only company
> that could build and operate the high tech fibre-to-the-node (FTTN)
> network.
>
> "No one else can do it in the way we are capable of doing it," Mr
> McGauchie said.
>
> "I can't imagine that the Government would want to go down a path with
> someone who was not capable of delivering."
>
> Earlier in the week, Optus Chief Paul O'Sullivan said his Optus-led G9
> consortium would bid to build the network, but was unhappy at the Federal
> Government's decision not to extend the deadline of July 25.
>
> In a wide-ranging interview, Mr McGauchie categorically ruled out bidding
> for the network if structural separation was imposed as a condition of the
> tender.
>
> "Structural separation is frankly really dangerous in what it does to a
> system.
>
> "Not only would it be unattractive to us, but it would be incredibly
> damaging to Australia," he said.

Pity that Telstra won;t have a say in it

>
> Structural separation would lead to the break-up of Telstra's retail and
> wholesale divisions, a move floated by Labor during its time in
> opposition.
>
> However, McGauchie was coy when discussing his views on the Rudd Labor
> government.
>
> "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.
>


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