For 100 years, Telstra has built the communications networks that Australians have relied on. But the internet has transformed the world that we live in forever.

Australia’s future prosperity literally depends on upgrading our networks for the high-speed broadband Gigabit age. This will cost many billions of dollars and Australia can’t afford to get it wrong.

Only Telstra has the proven capability to undertake this critical nation-building task.

With Next G™, Telstra has proved it can build the world’s largest and fastest national wireless broadband network in record time.

It is now time to build the world’s best high-speed fibre broadband network.

For nearly three years, Telstra has been doing the detailed, complex planning for Australia’s National Broadband Network.

As Australia’s phone company, Telstra is ready to build this network, as long as it makes business sense to do so.

Telstra’s National Broadband Network will be an open-access network, so our competitors will have equivalent access as Telstra itself.

That’s fair - as will be Telstra’s prices which will encourage small businesses and consumers to gain maximum value from this Network’s world-class capabilities.

This task is simply too important to risk with unknown quantities – Telstra stands ready to ensure that Australia reaps the enormous benefits of the Gigabit age.

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