Missed opportunities in Australia’s copper evolution

Telstra is the ideal choice to deliver our high-speed broadband network, writes Kenneth Davidson in The Age.THE telecommunications chickens are coming home to roost in a way that spells bad news for the Federal Government unless it can show some understanding of how the fixed network was built and how it should be developed.Until the late ’80s, the telephone network around the world was built on a two-part tariff. The first part was a below-cost connection fee that encouraged households to have the telephone installed, and the cost of building the network was recouped by charging above cost for calls.
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