Mr.T <MrT@home> wrote
> Vote out Brendan Nelson <vote@out.com> wrote

>> The only company that can deliver FTTH (Fibre to the Home) is Optus
>> only if bloody Telstra backed protesters didn't get in the way in the late
>> 1990's it could of been done already in the captial cities at least.

> Both companies provide FTTH or FTTN in most parts of Melbourne and Sydney already.

Nope, not in the sense that Telstra is proposing FTTN.

> Then they realised the take up rate for overpriced cable TV was
> less than expected and both companies stopped their roll outs.

Wrong again. Optarse lost the content war to foxtel and THAT was the reason the rollout stopped.

Telstra only did it because Optarse did it.

> Without privatisation and duplication, we could have had one fibre to twice as many homes instead,

Wrong. We wouldnt have seen any FTT* without it.

> and over 99% mobile coverage by now, for no extra cost.

Pure fantasy.

> Too bad for much of Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth and Hobart, not to mention most country towns of course.

They wouldnt have got it without the telsta monopoly being ripped away.