Telstra 'talks to Labor about broadband'

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Telstra 'talks to Labor about broadband'

Telstra is in talks with the Labor Party about its proposals for a high-speed broadband network, according a report.

Telstra chief executive Sol Trujillo refused to comment on Labor's broadband policy.

But The Australian reports that Telstra's head of regulatory affairs, Phil Burgess, has been in regular contact with opposition communications spokesman Stephen Conroy and other senior ALP figures.

Although this level of contact is not new, the failure to reach a deal with the government on a fibre-to-the-node network has given the talks with the ALP much greater focus.

Using figures from an earlier Telstra plan, Labor promised in February to spend $4.7 billion on building a national broadband network - a commitment that proved popular politically.

This proposed level of government funding and involvement would be markedly different from Telstra's more recent commitment to spend $4 billion of its shareholder funds to build a national network without government assistance.

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