<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div><span>It's highly unlikely the ACCC will care. I don't think the combined entity (iiNet + Internode) will have more than 20% market share (or will they ?), which is one threshold for ACCC to start looking at things and it won't substantially lessen competition in the market when you've still got a number of other strong players (Telstra, Optus, TPG, Exetel, etc).</span></div><div><br></div><div>Will iiNet have an increased power in the market ? Will they be able to raise the price of their products as a result ? <br></div><div><br></div><div>I'm not even sure if ACCC gets involved with sale of privately owned companies (Internode is not listed), although I can't see why they wouldn't it probably just doesn't come up that often as most large companies that they would be scrutinising for lessening competition in a market would
be listed.</div><div><br></div><div>As someone else said, the press release to the ASX should have had "subject to ACCC...." if it was going to be a concern. I doubt it's even on the radar. The ACCC might even applaude the move as it might create a business that is more able to compete with Telstra and so actually INCREASE competition in this particular market.<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span>regards,</span></div><div><span>Tony.<br></span></div><div><br></div> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Peter Tiggerdine <ptiggerdine@gmail.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> ausnog@ausnog.net <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Thursday, 22 December 2011 3:24 PM<br>
<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [AusNOG] iiNet to Acquire Internode<br> </font> <br><meta http-equiv="x-dns-prefetch-control" content="off"><div id="yiv906151600"><div>It's a TPG vs iiNet maket with a race to the bottom.</div>
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