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

So it clearly wants a hell of a lot more than broadband in the bush, fuckwit.

> how do you suppose they will achieve that by starting in the cities?

They START in the citys and end up doing the bush as well, fuckwit.

>>> 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

You in spades. 98% is a hell of a lot more than JUST the bush, fuckwit.

And the real bush is the 2% that isnt even covered, fuckwit.

>>>> "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?