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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=philcolbourn@gmail.com href="mailto:philcolbourn@gmail.com">phil
colbourn</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ausnog@ausnog.net
href="mailto:ausnog@ausnog.net">ausnog@ausnog.net</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:32
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [AusNOG] AAB Statement</DIV>
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<DIV>Both Optus and Telstra gave up after the rules changed and it was not as
easy to roll-out cable. </DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><STRONG>That is no the reason why. It had
absolutely nothing to do with the low impact changes. It came down to
the business case. Telstra only build HFC as a market protection
strategy. Telstra started paying their contrators massive money to build
it out which meant Optus had to pay massive prices for labour. Then
Telstra offered bundled services and the like which meant Optus was flat out
getting 30% market share. Optus realised the business case was gone and
stopped deploying. Then so did telstra. I could
go on.</STRONG></FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
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