[AusNOG] News: Minister Conroy contemplating Government-Funded undersea cable?

[James Andrewartha]

On Fri, 28 Sep 2012, Damian Guppy wrote:

> The NBN is justified as a comms network in Australia is a natural monopoly, international cables are not so much and would be a
> bad move IMO

http://arstechnica.com/business/2012/09/market-demand-knocks-down-regulatory-barriers-in-kansas-city-fiber-deployment/ 
argues that access isn't a natural monopoly. I don't know how well the 
argument translates to the Australian regulatory environment though.

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