<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><a href="http://www.aarnet.edu.au/about-us/publications.aspx">http://www.aarnet.edu.au/about-us/publications.aspx</a><div><br></div><div>At the bottom you can download the AARNET 20 year history book and read all about it. Worth at least a skim through.</div><div><br></div><div>MMC</div><div>(who has a hard copy)</div><div><br><div><div>On 29/07/2010, at 2:16 PM, Matthew Moyle-Croft wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">AARNET bought some IRUs from NextGen to keep it afloat during one of it's "financial issues". Prior to the current owners owning it outright.<div><br></div><div>MMC</div><div><br><div><div>On 29/07/2010, at 2:13 PM, Curtis Bayne wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">
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<!-- Converted from text/plain format --><p><font size="2">Didn't Telstra give that to AARNet?<br>
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To: Tony<br>
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Connectivity in Cloncurry<br>
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On 29/07/2010, at 1:58 PM, Tony wrote:<br>
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--- On Wed, 28/7/10, Paul Wallace <paul.wallace@mtgi.com.au<<a href="mailto:paul.wallace@mtgi.com.au">mailto:paul.wallace@mtgi.com.au</a>>> wrote:<br>
In my humble view we always need a min of four before real competition emerges.<br>
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Take for example the Perth route ...<br>
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Straying wildly off-topic but I thought there was four options to Perth (NN, Amcom, Telstra & Optus) ?<br>
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Telstra bought IP1. So, it's Telstra, NextGen, Optus who have actual infrastructure. Telstra have the only dual path.<br>
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Heck, I own more of IP1 than Amcom: <a href="http://www.users.on.net/~mmc/ip1adl.jpg">http://www.users.on.net/~mmc/ip1adl.jpg</a><br>
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