Surely this cant be legal ?! Deliberately trying to prevent the Australian People from having access to next generation FTTN is totally against the national interest. and is only in the interests of the foreign owners. The foreign owners are only interested in charging over inflated prices at regulated, below cost prices, and they know that if Telstra builds the FTTN they wont get regulated access to the network and will have to pay real world prices. On the other hand if they build the network they will have to build it and maintain it, two things the dog does not have the ability to do. How many technicians does this dog have? Most of the members in the consortium tell their customers to call Telstra when they have a problem with their line, knowing full well that Telstra is not aloud to report faults for non Telstra customers. This in its self is breaking the law, but now they are using the process, intended to speed up the role out of the FTTN, to carry on with their unfair business practices and to cheat the people of Australia out of a true next generation telecommunications network. All this time SingTel, wholly owned by the Government of Singapore, has used the money it has been earning from ripping off the Australian people to build their own world leading telecommunications network. It will be interesting to see wether the news agencies berating Telstra for 'using the process to its own advantage' will now make the same statement regarding the practices of the new dog.

TERRiA is a dog that might have to be put down. How can they say that they wouldn’t be fussed if neither Telstra nor TERRiA won the bid. Haven't they stumped up $5 million to bid? They should be ruled out immediately and all rights to view any existing network documentation taken away and the money given to charity. It would serve them right making such comments.

What a terrible piece of reporting. No where does it say anything of the sort Rhonda. It clearly states that TERRiA are not interested in owning a monopoly network. This is the actual quote, "None of the companies associated with Terria are all that fussed about owning and operating a monopoly network."