{"id":1332,"date":"2018-12-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/uncategorized\/telstra-hits-back-government-after-criticism-over-charging-disaster-warning-texts\/"},"modified":"2018-12-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-11T14:00:00","slug":"telstra-hits-back-government-after-criticism-over-charging-disaster-warning-texts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.star1045.com.au\/lifestyle\/telstra-hits-back-government-after-criticism-over-charging-disaster-warning-texts\/","title":{"rendered":"Telstra hits back at government after criticism over charging for disaster warning texts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Telstra CEO has called it “ridiculous” and “disgraceful”.\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Telstra has hit back at the government after it was suggested that disaster warning texts should be a free \u201ccommunity service\u201d.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszcuk claimed that the emergency text service Telstra provides should be free, and that tax payers shouldn\u2019t have to \u201cfoot the bill for a lifesaving service\u201d.<\/p>\n

The suggestion came amid the revelation that over 1.2 million disaster warning texts were sent to QLD residents during the recent deadly bushfires.<\/p>\n

Telstra CEO Andy Penn hit back at the premier\u2019s suggestion, stating that it was \u201cridiculous\u201d and \u201cdisgraceful\u201d that the government wouldn\u2019t pay for the service.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe provide the Queensland government with very significant technology and telecommunications networks \u2014 at their request we provide those services to them, so to suggest that Telstra\u2019s responsibility then to provide that for free is ridiculous,\u201d he told ABC radio.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put in place the telecommunications infrastructure under contracts required by the Queensland government, requested by the Queensland government, and obviously that cost money so we get paid for that.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow we get paid for that is function of those commercial arrangements agreed on by the Queensland government, so then to come back later and say by the way we don\u2019t want to pay for this, that\u2019s disgraceful.\u201d<\/p>\n

Palaszcuk believes that the technology should be simple and inexpensive, especially because it was essential for saving lives.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t now have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars for the emergency alert systems,\u201d she told reporters.<\/p>\n

The issue will be raised with Prime Minister Scott Morrison and other state and territory leaders, which could lead to a review of Telstra\u2019s contract with the Australian government.<\/p>\n

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Written by Kate Stevens<\/p>\n

Images: Getty \u00a0<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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