Conroy denies Optus pressured over NBN
Transcript LEIGH SALES, PRESENTER: A short time ago, Chris Uhlmann spoke with the Communications Minister Stephen Conroy.CHRIS UHLMANN, REPORTER: Stephen Conroy, welcome to 7.30.
STEPHEN CONROY, COMMUNICATIONS MINISTER: Good to be with you again.
CHRIS UHLMANN: How can rebuilding a government telecommunications monopoly make it cheaper for consumers?
STEPHEN CONROY: Well the great failing when Howard privatised Telstra was that he left it as a virtually integrated monopoly. According to the OECD, according to the ACCC, we have the most concentrated telecommunications market in the country. Telstra currently has not just the fixed-line monopoly, the copper monopoly, it has the largest share of mobile phones, it has the largest share of broadband users and it's a 50 per cent owner of the cable and the Foxtel company. So this is the most concentrated telco in the world.
So we started off on the premise we need to structurally separate Telstra, we need to create an open access, wholesale network. And if you wanted to do it on the basis of equal pricing, uniform national pricing across the country, you needed to have a government-built monopoly delivering that open access wholesale network.
CHRIS UHLMANN: And certainly what you did today though was to kill off all competition at a wholesale level.
STEPHEN CONROY: Well I think you saw today was Telstra recognise that this is ultimately in the best interests of its shareholders. And Optus, equally, recognise that trying to compete against a fibre optic alternative with HFC, a slightly inferior technology, was ultimately going to be defeating for their shareholders. And so they took the decision to enter into a financial agreement. There's been some speculation that we forced Optus; it's just not the case. Optus made a hard business judgment. They didn't wanna compete with HFC against fibre.
CHRIS UHLMANN: Will there be any unexpected costs for householders?
STEPHEN CONROY: Look, it's a free - it's a free service. We'll knock on your door, we'll say, "We've come to install." You can choose to say, "We don't want to take the NBN fibre service. We're going wireless." But what people need to remember is that we're cutting the copper. Telstra today have agreed to close down their copper network and that means that the only fixed-line alternative will be NBN's fibre line to the home. So people can say no, but, if you want a fixed line, it's NBN.
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