Telstra, Optus must give network data to FTTN rivals

Posted on February 29th, 2008 at 3:41 pm to ZDNet Australia by Jo Best

Broadband Minister Senator Stephen Conroy has demanded that Telstra — and a series of other carriers — provide him with the physical details of their networks, in order to enlighten companies that may be interested in building the government’s proposed fibre-to-the-node network.

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