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By Sarah Falson | Tuesday | 28/08/2007
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) today revealed a submission made to the agency by Telstra which reports various flaws in the G9’s proposed fibre-to-the-node network, calling it a “dangerous scheme” which would “degrade services”. The submission says that the scheme is expensive and would make customers worse of than they are today, actually locking out a faster, more innovative broadband network.
Telstra's Executive Director of Regulatory, Dr Tony Warren, actually goes so far as to say that the G9 is asking Australians to take part in an experience that no-one in the world has been game enough to try, considering the negative consequences.
"What G9 is proposing is to physically cut the copper lines that supply services to customers' homes and attach those lines to their own new network. Yet, there are no transition plans. Millions of customers are just expected to be cut over 'cold turkey'," he said.
"Who knows if emergency 000 calls will still work? We are being asked to take on trust the technical competence of a group of companies with limited technical experience.
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