Horry wrote:
> On Tue, 06 May 2008 06:45:47 +1000, B J Foster 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, speedy boy, how do you
>> suppose they will achieve that by starting in the cities?
>
> By moving into the bush once the cities are covered, perhaps?
>
>

The cities already have broadband (mostly), so starting there will just
delay the whole process. Maybe that's the aim.