By IT News
Communications minister Stephen Conroy has threatened to fund a new submarine link between Australia and the US out of the National Broadband Network budget if international pricing does not fall to reasonable levels.
In a speech boasting about his “unfettered legal power” over Australian telco regulation, Senator Conroy told a conference this week that he could order a Government-funded subsea cable if existing operators “do not start responding to market pressure”
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