http://www.smh.com.au/business/nbn-deal-means-new-monopoly-experts-warn-20110914-1k9p7.html

This promise of uniform national wholesale pricing for the NBN is also one of the reasons for the proposed $11 billion deal between Telstra, the NBN Co and Labor, which Professor Gans warns might suit the needs of the government and Telstra, but "will lead to significant consumer harm lasting for 20 years or more".

This is yet another example of why we cannot trust this government to look after our interests. The NBN is yet another attempt to gouge the taxpayer for political benefit.

why rudd went from fibre to the node
to rebuilding a new monopoly
then put if..on the never
never..[tic]

or why juliar said never ever
then says tony is on her wrong side
[she is histry]

is simply a sigh of the collective insanitity
of the 2 party system..ran by public serrvants..for public servants

really her big clue was the advice she got
re the boat people

but if it comes from a man in black
she does as she is told

heck its only $1000..per household
the kids will pay it on credit card

but we will go bust
long before we get access to it

im done worrying about it at all
chickens comehome to roost

histry assures us this

Yes same again.
Title says Shadow Minister.
Also says we all live in City's have enough speed.
Enough service, any service?
I care little about cost, my target is world standard speeds and availability to us all.
Australia is a big place, communications is important.
Just hours away from our country's biggest city we suffer Satellite only, tens of hundreds of us.
But any chance to denigrate the government.
OH unless Abbott is in government.
AH, just a thought Telstra was once the PMG is/was that a monopoly?
Who competed with it then?

Instead of privatizing Telstra, the government should have dissolved that crap company, as it's one of the few companies in Australia that has actually made this country worse off.

Trying to extort the country when they don't get their way with the NBN, frequent calls by their rude telemarketers who noted that I have abandoned their crappy services over a decade ago- and of course the worst services and infrastructure in both the Western World and also much of East Asia.

The NBN itself was only a good idea on the ground it could be a public-owned asset that bypassed Telstra entirely (considering the price tag taxpayers were expected to pay- it was a fair idea).
When Telstra got involved- I knew it would just be a Labor blunder that would eventually crash badly.

I mean really King Hazza , John Howard sold Telstra, creating the obstacle we now see, of a privatised tele-communications monopoly, standing in way of Australian Taxpayers regaining our own infrastructure, the very same infrastructure that we owned and built originally.

Don't care about the retail players situation, if we once again own our own tele-communications infrastructure.

Competition in the market place, will find its own level as it should, with the wholesale supplier of the superior product the NBN network belonging to the Australian people.

If people like SM think, that the Telstra privatisation experiment has been good for Australia or it's people, then they are living on fantasy island.

thinker 2,
Gun control & sale of Telstra were the Howard Governments worst actions. That scenario came about to appease the academics in the media rather than normal people. Unfortunate but a fact nevertheless.