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news: support to prevent tls monopoly. Labor backs joint FTTN plan
By Stuart Corner
Sunday, 23 April 2006
Shadow Communications minister, Stephen Conroy, has welcomed the proposal by seven of Telstra's competitors for a jointly owned broadband access network, saying that Labor has been advocating such an approach since last year and has publicly canvassed a detailed set of regulatory reforms to encourage such an approach.
He has called on the Government not to waste the opportunity presented by the proposal. "The government should give this joint venture proposal equal consideration to Telstra's fibre to the node plans, Conroy said. "Australia needs an open debate about the relative merits of this national joint venture approach compared to Telstra's metropolitan only plans."