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On 3/09/2010 2:32 PM, James Spenceley wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Telstra being paid to migrate customers from the copper network to the fibre is a strange one,
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That deal is still closed, which kind of blows me away. Shouldn't it be offered to everyone openly on equal terms ?
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If you look at the deal, one interpretation was mainly to obtain
faster (in time) and less obstructed access to ducts and cores in
existing fibre cables, thus reducing the cost of NBN deployment.
They are paying a bulk rate for dark-fibre access and duct access,
as much as they are paying for the customer base. I'm sure anyone
with a on-net retail customer base, and a ready supply of deployed
ducts and fibre which could be useful, might be able to negotiate a
similar deal :-)<br>
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<pre wrap="">The other aspect, if I was a retail ISP (and I am certainly am not) I'd also be very scared that Telstra is going to have an $11b war chest to attack the market with. That is going to be a very scary gorilla looking to increase market share.
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+1 to that - and I'm sure this <a
href="http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/telecommunications/telstra-move-to-close-exchange-worries-rivals/story-fn4iyzsr-1225913520295?referrer=email&source=AIT_email_nl&emcmp=Ping&emchn=Newsletter&emlist=Member">exchange
closure</a> is not news to many on this list, and a reminder of
why time to move beyond debate to deployment is not infinite. <br>
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