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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">And we all know how well functional separation works out, even for a “quality“ carrier like Telstra!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Velocity estates.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Skeeve Stevens<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 11 September 2014 10:01 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> ausnog@ausnog.net<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [AusNOG] News: TPG gets green light to connect fibre to basement in apartments<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">TPG forced to separate wholesale and retails divisions.... I didn't think anything could make me happier than the Apple announcements this week.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">TPG Telecom will be allowed by the competition regulator to keep connecting urban apartments to its high speed broadband network despite NBN Co's claim it could lead to its business
case collapsing and the potential it could add billions of dollars in expenses to the Budget.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">But Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull will push to force the functional separation of TPG Telecom's wholesale and retail divisions as part of a new license arrangement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">TPG Telecom launched its plan to connect 500,000 apartments and businesses to a fibre-to-the-basement network that provided internet speeds similar to those offered by the national broadband
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">The company used a clause that allowed networks built before 2011 to be extended by 1 kilometre to go around laws designed to stop NBN Co from having any competition.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">But NBN Co opposed the measure because it has been ordered to build broadband services to unprofitable rural and regional areas and must use lucrative city homes and businesses to help
pay for the construction.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">If TPG Telecom is allowed to own and operate its network bigger rivals like Telstra have indicated they would want to be able to compete and experts have warned this could force billions
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"Having carefully examined TPG's plans, the ACCC does not propose to take further action in relation to TPG's planned fibre to the basement network rollout to supply residential customers
in high-rise buildings in Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth," Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chair Rod Sims said. "TPG's networks were capable of supplying superfast carriage services to small business or residential customers
at 1 January 2011.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"The ACCC will now conduct a declaration inquiry into whether a superfast broadband access service like the type to be provided by TPG over its fibre-to-the-basement networks should
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">Mr Turnbull said in a statement he would speed up the process of imposing restrictions on companies looking to compete against NBN Co in a move that could make TPG's plan unprofitable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"The public inquiry process for declaring a category of telecommunications services can take up to a year, however, which creates a window of potential instability and industry uncertainty,"
he said. "The licence condition would require owners of high-speed networks affected by the ACCC's declaration process to functionally separate their wholesale operations, and to provide access to competing service providers on the same terms as it is provided
to their own retail operations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black">"This licence condition would remain in place for two years – allowing the ACCC to undertake its declaration inquiry, the recommendations of the Vertigan panel to be properly considered,
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