Ken Ticehurst (Dobell, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Hotham, who is interjecting, should read the article in Tuesday’s edition of the Australian containing a report about Sony Ericsson’s prediction that users will need only one phone; they will not need a fixed house phone because one phone will be able to access both the mobile and fixed phone networks. Catch up with the technology and he might understand what it is all about.

Telstra can provide ADSL2+ because many of its exchanges are fitted with the appropriate technology. However, it refuses to turn it on until it has a competitor providing a service out of the same exchange. That is one example of Telstra trying to maintain its monopoly; it is trying to protect its fibre-to-the-node idea. It is obvious that the Labor Party is trying to get into government so that it can get people signed up to a new phone network resulting in more and more unionists. That is what it is all about. I commend this bill to the House.

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