Telstra Chairman on the Broadband impasse
Recently, Telstra's Chairman, Donald McGauchie, spoke at the 2008 Economic & Social Outlook Conference: New Agenda for Prosperity. The question put to speakers at this session was:
What is needed to turn the political football of broadband into the investment required to produce substantially faster internet speeds? Should the dominate telco be regulated more or less?
Other speakers at this session included: Senator the Hon. Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy; Graeme Samuel, Chairman of the ACCC; and Ravi Bhatia, CEO of Primus Australia.
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UPDATE:
Telstra Chairman Donald McGauchie hits back at the Optus-backed G9 consortium's renewed interest in building the national broadband network, declaring Telstra the only viable bidder. In an exclusive KGB Interrogation, Mr McGauchie told Alan Kohler, Robert Gottliebsen and Stephen Bartholomeusz that Telstra was the only company that could build and operate the high tech fibre-to-the-node (FTTN) network.