Beware (another phone rant)

[cArSiK]

lets get afew things straight. Telstra is without doubt Australia's best Telecommunications provider. period.

Lets take a look at their closest rival, SingTel Optus; In the last 3 months they have had three major outages of their mobile network, with the worst also knocking out the backup link leaving thousands of people without coverage causing chaos at airports and businesses loosing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Optus is currently expanding their 3g network with a cut price "Huawei" offering - Telstra built NextG with no exprense spared ($1bn) using Ericsson harware. Optus are hoping to cover 1 million square Kms once this network is completed. NextG currently covers 2 million sq Kms. Where I come from, that is double.

Telstra will win the NBN (fibre to the node) license from the government and will be the only company of building such a network.

But lack of sufficient network engineering and investment aside, all of Optus' profit (not that there is a great deal) is handed back to its parent company SingTel which is a subsidiary of Temasek Holdings, an investment body and wholly owned by the Singapore Government. Telstra profits stay within the country.

So enough Telstra bashing. Look at the facts.