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This was definitely one of the few elements that was left open for Telstra to increase the price.

Paul Budde

The world is a difficult place for phone companies. The margins and profits for companies like Telstra in earlier years were based on an environment that no longer exists.

Hans Kunnen

(Investors) don't want to see this relatively ferocious back and forth between the government and Telstra management, they want to see a plan for how earnings and the share price of the company are going to be buoyed.

David Land

People have less than 24 hours to make submissions on the Telstra privatisation bills -- bills that are fundamental to telecommunication services in country and outer metropolitan areas.

Catherine King

Unfortunately if you want to protect your interests there is sometimes no other way of doing business with Telstra.

Kerry Stokes

We were certainly forecasting a difficult period for Telstra but this is slightly worse than what we were expecting.

Scott Marshall

It is disturbing that Telstra still has not offered the particular ADSL (asymmetric digital subscriber line) broadband technology that was requested by wholesale customers more than a year ago.

Allan Fels

Times will change, but not in 2006. It's not so easy for phone companies like Telstra to make money like they used to. They're a hard sell to investors.

Hans Kunnen

You say you're going to start downsizing, you lose your good people first. And that's what will happen to Telstra.

Paul Broad

With this bleak outlook and this share price, it's going to be extremely difficult for the government to sell. Telstra would obviously like less regulation, but that's something which is out of its hands.

Craig Young

There appears to have been a number of discussions held between Telstra and the Government which really should have been made public.

John Curry

If nothing [regulatory] changes then Telstra will continue to have significant problems.

Scott Marshall

This approach will deliver high speed broadband services to more Australians, more quickly, than if the new network was a Telstra monopoly.

David Tudehope

Mobile phone prices are only going one direction, and that's down. Telstra faces a lot more competition in the wireless market, so the margins are nowhere near as impressive as those for fixed-line.

Charlie Lanchester

Telstra will have to examine that more closely, it goes against the spirit of the law which was meant to ensure decisions were made promptly.

Rod Bruem

I think what it says is that Telstra Stadium is out of sight, out of mind.

Nick Pappas

The regulatory outcomes are going affect not only Telstra, but it is going to have a knock-on affect into the rest of the telecommunications industry.

David Land

We would anticipate that any recommendation below $30 will meet vociferous legal action by Telstra.

Tim Smeallie

On our network, we can provide much faster data speed than you can provide on the Telstra network. The proposition we're announcing puts us right into the heartland of broadband growth and customer needs in the Australian marketplace.

Warren Hardy

Telstra seems to be favoring its own retail business while continuing to delay services needed by its wholesale customers to enable them to compete with Telstra's retail business.

Allan Fels

Our international experience and innovative learning methods will better equip Telstra staff to meet the needs of customers.

Steve Willis

Telstra is certainly accentuating the falls based on its magnitude in the index.

David Halliday

This is about giving rural and regional Australia certainty and confidence that regardless of who owns Telstra, there will be a visible and effective Telstra presence in rural and regional Australia.

Helen Coonan

It's going to be a pretty hard task to sell when the future of the most profitable part of Telstra is so uncertain and risky. Its main business is in decline, and the downside is hard to ascertain.

Craig Young

The financial trends at Telstra are not good. We've got a cost structure we can't afford.

Sol Trujillo

Telstra has been able to maintain very high margins in its traditional market.

Paul Budde

Decisions that are made around certain services being considered by the inquiry may have a substantial and material impact on the financial performance of Telstra and its rivals in the industry in coming years.

Tim Smart

The Prime Minister's comments have been unhelpful. He has no more right to call for the Telstra directors to talk up the interests of the company than the Telstra board has a right to talk down the interests of the company. The directors must tell it as they see it. If they are subsequently found to be misleading the market, they will be held accountable.

John Curry

Of the 21 per cent how many would have been to Telstra since the ground was reconfigured in 2001?

Ken Edwards

So there is a clear breach, in my view, of the disclosure provisions and that is the fault of the Telstra board, and I suspect probably the fault of the Government.

John Curry

The reality is Suncorp holds 52,000 and Telstra holds 82,000. The commercial reality is unless the Queensland Government is willing to put in a lot of money to make it happen, it can't happen.

Shane Richardson

Together these companies are bigger than Telstra so they could easily build their own private network.

Liz Jurman

We are carefully considering the material before us and expect to determine in a matter of weeks whether or not we will issue a competition notice to Telstra.

Graeme Samuel

Clearly, it's the industry conditions and the regulatory environment that's damaging the pricing for the Telstra sale.

Rob Patterson

Telstra acted completely appropriately and within the law, and will vigorously defend any subsequent action by the ACCC. Critics who argue they can't make a profit on this product risk deliberately misleading the public.

Tony Warren

We're finding now, particularly some Telstra and some Optus people out there in the market.

Paul Broad

Investors are very cautious about PCCW, they want more news on Telstra. But I think the stock will hold at current levels for the time being.

George Chan