www.WirelessFederation.com/news: The recent change to the Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) proposal has been severely opposed by telecom operator Telstra which has expressed its deep concern by the change effecting negotiations over the sale of assets.
A new state-owned broadband network company will be allowed by the draft legislation to provide retail services, instead of just wholesale services. According to the company, such an outcome would run counter to the core purpose of the NBN and the government’s primary policy objective of restructuring the industry to have separate providers for retail and wholesale fixed network services.
Negotiations over the sale of assets to the government is currently on the cards of Telstra which has promised to spend up to AUD43 billion (USD38.6 billion) on rolling out high speed internet access throughout the country.