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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=Bevan.Slattery@staff.pipenetworks.com
href="mailto:Bevan.Slattery@staff.pipenetworks.com">Bevan Slattery</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=dhooper@emerge.net.au
href="mailto:dhooper@emerge.net.au">Daniel Hooper</A> ; <A
title=ausnog@lists.ausnog.net
href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 12, 2010 8:24
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [AusNOG] Help with NBN
questions.</DIV>
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>BBC and HIBIS were a lesson
in how government (Howard) missed another opportunity to help the
industry. </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>HiBIS was a good scheme, the
problem was that DCITA stuffed it up. Because wireless took off DCITA
wanted to reduce the amount being spent and so cut wireless out as best they
could and favoured Satellite.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> Could have built
serious open backhaul networks,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>That is debateable. I am a
believer in aggregating demand then scaling the backhaul.
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<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG></STRONG></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Some of the operators had
undertakings from the nationals re bachaul, but then the pollies tried to
speed things up Opel etc and oddly enough the nationals changed their mind or
more accurately doubled the price of the backhaul. Oddly enough
the pollies had one motivation and DCITA had another that weren't on the same
page. Then there was the issue of spectrum etc.</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> instead shelled out
money to many operators (not all) who were merely in it to take as
much cash off the table by providing the the cheapest solution to deliver the
minimum qualifing service for funding.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>That was DCITA's responsibility
and they did a piss poor job of it. A number of us sat in Canberra
in 2004 and told them how it could be abused, and made some suggestions how to
avoid the abuse, they didn't listen and they didn't act. However
many that you think used the cheapest solution wasn't necessarily by
choice. They couldn't get spectrum. We asked DCITA to speak with
the ACMA, not possible</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>There are a lot of people that
think they know what went on, but few do. At the end of the day it
came down to poor program design and not enough funding and DCITA not
listening to feedback. </FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> And what about the
majority of these users today? </FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>Some are on ADSL, some are on
Wireless fixed and mobile and some on Satellite</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial color=#000000 size=2>Well they're on NextG
and those townships still have no competitive backhaul.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>The business case for competitive
fibre comes from demand, the build and they will come model has failed
so many times</STRONG></FONT></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>regards</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2></FONT></STRONG> </DIV>
<DIV dir=ltr><STRONG><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tim</FONT></STRONG></DIV>
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