CEO of Telstra Andy Penn has hit back at Gladys Berejeklian for taking aim at Telstra saying they are hurting communication in our regional areas.

Ms Berejeklian claims the Telstra TPG MOCN deal is a merger and will lessen choice and investment.

Mr Penn told Jim Wilson, that Optus needs to focus on their customers instead.

“Optus is always complaining about what we’re doing if they focused a bit more on their own customers they wouldn’t be so far behind us on so many fronts.”

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