Telstra's cheief executive Sol Trujillo recently indicated that Telstra could roll out a national fibre network regardless of any governement assistance as they did with their Next G wireless network. These comments have surfaced in light of Telstra chairman Donald McGauchie claims that Telstra could still withdraw from the governement's FTTN tender process if it takes too long to make a decision. After criticising Optus and the WiMAX technology to be used by OPEL, Mr Trujillo went on to say that the Next G network could reach speeds of 40Mbps by 2009, which could then be superseded by speeds of 1Gbps by 2001.
Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo said the carrier had "never set a date" on its plans for a fibre to the node network, indicating that Telstra could move to roll out a national fibre network without any government assistance, as it had done with its Next G mobile network.
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