<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Spot on Mark.</div><div><br></div><div>Think multiple markets or give up.</div><div><br></div><div>It's almost impossible to fund developing Australian-use only technology. You need an insane government agency with deep pockets. A government owned national bounty node if you will, who insist on developing special solutions with local certification, like ISUP-A and A-tick and even ADR.</div><div><br></div><div>Look how well ADR helped Australian car keep manufacturing special cars just for Australian conditions after global companies worked out how to sell the same car in multiple markets.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.294118); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.231373); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium;">John Lindsay</span></div><div><br>On 29 May 2014, at 8:49 pm, Mark Newton <<a href="mailto:newton@atdot.dotat.org">newton@atdot.dotat.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><span></span><br><span>So the only customers will be Australian customers; All the R&D costs associated with developing the service offering would need to be recouped from Australian customers; "Scale" would be impossible. The service would thus be a commercial failure, because the Australian market isn't big enough to support that kind of innovation.</span><br><span></span><br><span>An Australian company could develop an offering which wasn't a commercial failure by developing it to work on the kinds of networks that are available throughout the rest of the world, so they could shard their R&D costs across multiple markets. What kind of networks are available throughout the rest of the world? Internet access delivered on 1000baseT.</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>