[November 18, 2009] NBN a ploy to break up Telstra: AAPT Tweet Nov 18, 2009 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Criticism of the national broadband network (NBN) planned by the Australian Government has been voiced by Paul Broad, CEO of telco AAPT. He noted that rather than fibre optics cabling as proposed for the $A3bn project, the future for high-speed internet access was wireless technology. Broad alleged that the NBN was used as a pretext by the Government to force structural separation on dominant provider Telstra. AAPT may sell some of its own cable assets into the NBN, but does not want to take any holding in it in return. Publication Date: 19 November 2009 AAPT LIMITED TELECOM CORPORATION OF NEW ZEALAND LIMITED - ASX TEL TELSTRA CORPORATION LIMITED - ASX TLS NBN CO LIMITED SINGAPORE TELECOMMUNICATIONS LIMITED - ASX SGT SINGTEL OPTUS PTY LTD AUSTRALIAN LABOR PARTY AUSTRALIA. DEPT OF BROADBAND, COMMUNICATIONS AND THE DIGITAL ECONOMY AARNET ALCATEL-LUCENT AUSTRALIA LIMITED IBM AUSTRALIA LIMITED NEWS DIGITAL MEDIA PTY LTD NEWS CORPORATION - ASX NWS [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]