| Internode
When debates (about things like FTTN, as an obvious example) are coloured by jingoistic, xenophobic rhetoric that is intended to use fear and uncertainty to achieve change, its certain that the most likely casualty is the truth.
We support T4 because it provides a quiet voice of reason in an otherwise noisy, and historically one-sided set of information provided by the proponent with the largest financial benefit to gain from the achievement of its goals.
Deeper, when the rhetoric about the need for extreme financial gain is touted by the incumbent, the story provided offers only selected parts of the truth.
The aim of T4 is to provide interested people with more of the whole truth of situations that arise in the context of advancing broadband in Australia.
It will help to fill out the entire story in many cases - because to date the information provided by the incumbent has been demonstrating its financial requirements and goals, has been noisy in terms of the aforementioned emotive rhetoric, but it has been totally silent about things that actually matter to consumers (such as the expected impacts on retail pricing).
Consumers need to be able to answer questions in this realm, which have been impossible to answer with information from the incumbent alone. Questions like:
- How much more will broadband cost consumers, if competition and innovation is diminished in order to gain additional monopoly rent income for the incumbent?
- How much more will higher speeds and other innovations be held back, if the only gatekeeper for the release of those advances is an incumbent with a seven year track record in limiting broadband speeds speeds and constraining innovation to maximise its own return on investment?
- Should advances in broadband deployment in Australia be made with an increase in profit for a single entity as the primary goal? Or should it be driven by pro-competition, pro-consumer goals?
In a world in which the loudest voice, to date, has been that of the entity with the most financial gain to achieve, consumers need a pro- consumer voice of reason to provide a balanced set of information to help them understand the full implications of potential new paths into the broadband future in Australia.
Hence: T4. | 
