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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 06/05/2014 07:04 PM, Rod Veith
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<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au">Quote Paul</span><span
lang="en-au"><i> "</i></span><span lang="en-au"><i>……</i></span><span
lang="en-au"><i> Last mile infrastructure competition would be
a huge bonus for Australian consumers.</i></span><span
lang="en-au"><i>"</i></span><span lang="en-au"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au">It is the last place competition
makes sense.</span><span lang="en-au"> Should we</span><span
lang="en-au"> also</span><span lang="en-au"> have 4 providers
of railway lines to Sydney? or</span><span lang="en-au"> 3</span><span
lang="en-au"> driveways into your house?</span><span
lang="en-au"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au"></span></p>
<p dir="LTR"><span lang="en-au">A national provider, under
regulation</span><span lang="en-au">, makes the most sense for
Australia. Competition is not</span><span lang="en-au"> right
cure for all problems.</span><br>
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I suspect you're right, and I certainly don't expect any provider to
be putting up their hand to compete with Telstra on the last mile
(although one could argue that this is what TPG and Big Air are
doing, selectively).<br>
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But if there's a place where more "reasonable outcomes to consumers"
is most sorely needed, it's in the last mile. I don't care whether
we get there through competition or regulation (or a bit of each),
but we need to get there.<br>
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Paul<br>
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