TelstraClear’s new chief executive officer Allan Freeth has hit back at recent suggestions that his company’s plans for launching 3G services lack credibility, saying simply: ‘we’re not bluffing’. In a statement yesterday, Dr Freeth said TelstraClear was ‘in the middle of very heavy work about the mobility investment’ and then took a sideswipe at recent analysts’ assessment of the current situation, saying that it was naïve to assume that a strategy decision over expenditure for the project could be decided quickly. Although the telco faces a virtual duopoly, in Telecom and Vodafone, Dr Freeth is confident that his major structural review will see TelstraClear building upon the base it has established since 2000.