3 September 2008 03:07PM
Tags: telstra | ready | build | nbn

Telstra has welcomed Minister Conroy's closing date for proposals on building a National Broadband Network (NBN).

The telecommunications giant said it was ready to build the network, as long as it was in its shareholders interest to do so.

David Quilty, group managing director of public policy and communications at Telstra reiterated its guarantee that the NBN would be an open access network.

“Our competitors will be able to access the NBN on an equivalent basis as the telco’s own business units,” he said.

He said the NBN was a major upgrade of Telstra's existing network.

“It is a massive project, bigger than even the Snowy Mountains Scheme and complex,” claimed Quilty.