<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 16 September 2015 at 21:20, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ausftth@mail.com" target="_blank">ausftth@mail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
Now, I'm all for lower backhaul costs, but surely there would have been better ways to go about this than this sudden change of heart. It's like some bloke at the NBNco found an Econ 101 textbook, happened upon the definition of regulatory uncertainty and came up with the brilliant idea of field testing the concept.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I call this "making the best of a bad situation" & will add that the concept has worked well for New Zealand.<br><br>Tail extensions & regulated backhaul have allowed small & specialist ISPs to pay hefty premiums to get a few customers at a particular exchange, while still making it attractive for the large players to build their own backhaul.</div><div><br></div><div>-JB</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>