The Communications, Electrical and Plumbing Union (CEPU) warned that the breakdown of talks between Telstra and the ACCC over access pricing threatened $4 billion in infrastructure investment and millions more in training expenditure."We are already falling behind other developed countries when it comes to high speed communications services," Colin Cooper, from the CEPU's communications division said.
"We have a national fixed telecommunications network which urgently needs upgrading, as Telstra has itself at last admitted.
"And we have a communications workforce which needs to be skilled up to operate the next generation of communications infrastructure."
Mr Cooper said it was the government's responsibility to set the right policy and regulatory settings for these things to happen.
"They are sitting on their hands while the only realistic plan for a fixed network upgrade turns to ashes in front of them," he said.
"Meanwhile, they tinker at the policy edges with programmes which are designed to keep the Nationals happy but which don't offer a comprehensive national solution for this country's broadband needs."
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