JOHN MENADUE. The NBN and the wholesale/network arm of Telstra that should never have been sold.

October 23, 2017

Yesterday Malcolm Turnbull , perhaps unwittingly,sheeted home the real responsibility for the NBN debacle to the privatisation of Telstra by the Howard Government.  In his attempt to blame the Rudd government for the current problems, he really let the cat out of the bag.  He said If you want to look at a country that did this exercise much better, it was New Zealand. What they did was they basically ensured the incumbent telco - the Telstra equivalent - split its network operations from its retail operations and then that network company, called Chorus, became in effect the NBN.'