Telstra's Local Presence Plan rejected

07.03.2006

Coonan added the government does not wish to make the Local Presence Plan "unduly prescriptive or burdensome" but stated any plan should be broadly compatible with Telstra's commercial interests.

"This obligation was never designed to be onerous or prescriptive and Telstra's Country Wide model was very early on held up as an exemplar of local presence," Coonan said.