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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-NZ link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Couldn’t get much worse </span><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>😉</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> Robert Hudson [mailto:hudrob@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 12 May 2017 3:53 PM<br><b>To:</b> Tony Wicks <tony@wicks.co.nz><br><b>Cc:</b> ausnog@lists.ausnog.net; Alexander Samad <alex@samad.com.au><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] NYTimes article on the NBN<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>So Tony, what you're suggesting is that we should gamify broadband rollout and have John Williamson sing Waltzing Matilda outside the nbn head office, convincing us of the need to win the Bledisloe Broadband Cup?<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 12 May 2017 1:46 pm, "Tony Wicks" <<a href="mailto:tony@wicks.co.nz">tony@wicks.co.nz</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'>It is somewhat amusing to watch from a Kiwi point of view when you see how smoothly our “UFB” FTTH rollout is going and New Zealand takes an unassailable lead! Nice to be winning for a change <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></blockquote></div></div></div></body></html>