<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 at 08:42 David Hughes <<a href="mailto:david@hughes.com.au">david@hughes.com.au</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">From my (sometimes faulty) memory I recall a payment of similar scale in NBN 1.0 to Optus as compensation for decommissioning their HFC network and using NBN as the access network for those services. I guess at least this time NBN got something out of the deal.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Your memory is correct. They were being paid 800ml before to decommission and bin the HFC network. The renegotiated deal was 800ml which included the HFC assets at no additional cost.</div><div><br></div><div>I don't understand the media blow up over this. </div><div><ol><li>Replacement of all CMTSs was a given under the HFC plan and the deal for that was already signed with Arris some time ago. </li><li>Node splitting was a given also.</li></ol><div>David.</div></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br>
</blockquote></div></div><div dir="ltr">-- <br></div><div dir="ltr"><span>David Connors</span><br><a>david@connors.com</a><span> | </span><a>@davidconnors</a><span> | </span><a>LinkedIn</a><span> | </span><a>+61 417 189 363</a><br></div>