and the solution rests on - chainsaws!, page-16

not sure wether you are trying to be funny,but no its no joke telstra provide the trunking service ,optus and any other telco actually have their equipment in the telstra exchanges,[telephone exchanges] they are just computers about the size
of a four or eight drawer filing cabinet depending on the number of customers,yep no matter what it is telstra help out,so here we have mr rudd with his dream of providing almost unlimited bandwidth through optic fibre of course not everywhere or everyone will need or want so much available technology,i guess integrating into one primary system reduces the fragmentation that might arise if each telco had their own system and that has certainly happened in the usa,however all that could be averted simply with broad regulatory reform and then stipulate that all telcos will contribute to the network development ,as it is,companys like optus only enter the juicy lucy areas,easy to get market share through the sort of competitive pricing that the accc would not accept from telstra.

the claim is that telstra have a monopoly well of course its true they were the first national telephony company in australia the [pmg]the postmasters general department,then telecom australia owned by the people of australia and operating under a government charter,telstra is the same business partially privatised and listed on the asx with a large slice still held by the government and naturally just as they did before they still get an income from telstra ,however it is quite apparent that a little income is not as good as a really really big income,enter the nbn proposal where the hard assets of optic fibre remove a good slice that being the wholesale slice of their market share,which is passed to the nbn company and naturally the govt are going to have their sticky fat fingers in a very big pie,and will have regained essentially control of the national trunking network ,but the big plus will be the sale of exclusive bandwidth on the fibre optic ,now being controlled by that sticky fingered group the govt.

you see once upon a time bandwidth was regulated,and wether it was the air waves or copper, regulation controlled its allocation and use ,however the advent of digital processing combined with the enormous bandwidth available through fibre optics has changed all of that,so once upon a time the cables under the ocean would be as thick as your waist to carry information on a pair at a time ,now its as thick as your arm and congestion never occurs because of the enormous capability in bandwidth and digital compression.

so thats what its all really about control,control,control and money,money and more money for the government in almost unlimited ability to charge fees ,fees and more fees while all telcos including telstra will be required to use the nbn,naturally it will be illegal to establish another competitive network, so there you have it,mr krudd spent so much of his life with the chinese he has somehow developed
a socialist ideology that even the chinese are striving to leave behind,and that ideology is apparent in every expenditure reform krudd has undertaken always with the mantra its good for the people,and here i guess is the really confusing part ,the actual people all his reforms are good for are "the government people"