<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">On May 12, 2017, at 1:52 PM, Benjamin Ricardo <<a href="mailto:ben.ricardo@acs.net.au" class="">ben.ricardo@acs.net.au</a>> wrote:<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;"><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class="">We’re about 29 times bigger with only 5 times more people… that could be part of the problem…<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>No, that’s the excuse Telstra used to use on Telecommunications Ministers to justify keeping long distance telephone call prices high.</div><br class=""><div class="">It was bullshit then and it’s bullshit now. If you’re not working for a monopolist, you shouldn’t be buying in to it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Australia is one of the most urbanized nations on earth, it just has big gaps between the urban islands. Those gaps are cheap per head of population to bridge.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">We don’t have a tyrrany of distance in Australia, we just have a broken market. NBN’s architecture and wholesale pricing structure is part of the cause of the market breakage.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> - mark</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>