The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has rejected a G9 Proposal on Broadband pricing for a new fibre-to-the-node network. The main reason for doing so revolved around the unclear pricing that would come into play after the initial three year period was up. Although the proposal was rejected...

The G9 consortium, made up from well known ISPs' such as Optus, Primus, PowerTel and Internode etc.., have stated that they can develop an Australian high speed broadband network and offer half the price that Telstra have proposed. Optus chief executive Paul O'Sullivan recently blasted Telstra...