Rod Speed wrote:
> 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.

The *labor* government wants 98% coverage, speedy boy, how do you
suppose they will achieve that by starting in the cities?


>
>> It's good business to pay attention to your
>> biggest customer - one would have thought
>
> Only when you noticed that the govt has changed.

Well of course its entirely possible that Labor can't do arithmetic but
neither can you

>
>>> "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?
>
>