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<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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-----Original Message-----<BR>
From: ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net on behalf of craig@askings.com.au<BR>
Sent: Thu 8/12/2010 3:31 PM<BR>
To: ausnog@ausnog.net<BR>
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>
><BR>
> 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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