<html><head><base href="x-msg://635/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 13/10/2010, at 9:43 AM, Peter Tonoli wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); ">First thing that comes to mind when reading this little conspiracy theory is one of the premises of NBN is that it will be sold and made a commercial entity; imagine SingTel/Optus having an interest in DoD critical infrastructure?</div></div></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Singtel Optus do have an interest in DoD critical infrastructure - from its Aussat roots. It is apparent that the armies of Singapore have not invaded Australia because of access to this data.</div><div><br></div><div>This argument came up in the press during the OPEL planning, where it was also a non-event and nothing more than a distraction in the media.</div><div><br></div><div>It might be worth saving this thread so you can refer back to it if Huawei is selected as a vendor for NBN and accused of being potential Chinese spies for the 100th time.</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div></div></body></html>