<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">So,<div>You're arguing against the NBN because your customers might get a better deal?</div><div><br></div><div>MMC</div><div><br><div><div>On 12/08/2010, at 3:19 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">Of course I don't - Telstra aren't scary.<br>
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Telstra need to justify this investment to their shareholders, fund their steamrolling expeditions out of cashflow, are bound by normal carrier privileges and will probably just throw down a few token DSLAMs about the place because that's how they (truck/rick)roll. Maybe turn up a few extra NextG channels for good luck and call the job done.<br>
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...and they'll price themselves out of the small to medium enterprise market.<br>
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NBNCo, on the other hand, will directly target each and every one of my customers, install infrastructure into their premises on an opt-out basis and deliver it at a price point which no cashflow-funded entity in this country that I can think of can compete with.<br>
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The latter scares me far more!<br>
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Sent: Thu 8/12/2010 3:31 PM<br>
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] background radiation was: "i want a pony!" (wasRe:Long live the NBN. The NBN is dead?! [personal])<br>
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Curtis Bayne wrote:<br>
> Perhaps I'm over analyzing the question, or unsure of what exactly<br>
you're<br>
> asking.<br>
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> Regulatory certainty in this context is simple: a guarantee that a<br>
government-owned entity with practically limitless capital and with<br>
super-carrier privileges won't steamroll my regional telco deployment<br>
into<br>
> financial oblivion.<br>
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Do you want them to ban Telstra from overbuilding you as well? Prior to<br>
the NBN being a glimmer in Conroy's eye, if you built any kind of regional<br>
Customer Access Network in an under-served area Telstra would come in and<br>
try and steam roll you.<br>
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I'm sure there are a few people on this list that have seen that first<br>
hand, perhaps somewhere in South East regional part of SA????<br>
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Craig.<br>
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