Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

The premise of that question fails on two fronts. We are not forcing Telstra to structurally separate; we are putting forward a series of reforms, and Telstra have a choice. They have a choice about the path they want to take: they can sit on their existing assets—the decrepit, dying, old, copper network—or they can move into the future with the new mobile spectrum and the new applications and technologies that will bring. Telstra have the choice about how they want to proceed—