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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Hi All</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=pbrooks-ausnog@layer10.com.au
href="mailto:pbrooks-ausnog@layer10.com.au">Paul Brooks</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=Bevan.Slattery@staff.pipenetworks.com
href="mailto:Bevan.Slattery@staff.pipenetworks.com">Bevan Slattery</A> ; <A
title=ausnog@ausnog.net href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, April 14, 2009 5:11
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [AusNOG] Aust Govt will
build National Broadband Network, no company will be awarded the tender.</DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>Bevan Slattery wrote:
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Come on - let's do this right for a change, because if anything the past
5 years and three initiatives have proven, Government DOESN'T know best.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>He is absolutely 43,000,000,000+%
correct.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><BR>Although sometimes government has to step in,</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Absolutely correct</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>Nearly three years on and only 170,000 homes subscribed to FTTH at the
end of 2008, of which 130,000 were cable customers, according to figures
published by Arcep on Tuesday. That is from an addressable market of 550,000
homes passed within 20,500 apartment buildings, the French regulator
said.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>Which is why a government NBN will
not be able to deliver a commercial return, which leads us to the question is
$43,000,000,000 a wise investment to cover 90% of the population of which 68%
of the popuation already has access to 12 MB or more. Does enough of the
market require semi trailers to go and do the grocery shopping and are they
prepared to pay for it, to justify buying everyone a semi trailer to go
shopping.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2>regards</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2>Tim</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>