Paddy

The big problem is Telstra, a private company should not own the national telecommunications network.

Until it is put back in it's cage it's going to be difficult to deal with the cripplingly slow data speeds that inhibit our data centres, access to international markets, and local take-up.

Most people use the internet in relatively few areas of their day-to-day lives and will continue to while ever data connections speeds remain as they are.

Our domestic market is small enough as it is we need to get Australians using the internet more and this means speed.