<div dir="ltr">Wonder what the move is next for telcos in OZ<div><br></div><div>We saw TPG make a move with fibre to the premise (business).</div><div><br></div><div>I see Exetel using the NBN - in the CBD to offer fibre </div><div>I think Optus has some sort of ethernet to the building </div><div><br></div><div>Is it going to take another government initiative to push this forward again... My "sceptical - biased" opinion thinks the telco's will sit on their current assets and upgrade at a snails pace - or potentially where they can make money - I would believe the appetite for risk would low ... But saying that TPG making a move on fairfax and mobile spectrum ....</div><div><br></div><div>A</div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 12 May 2017 at 15:34, Shane Short <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:shane@short.id.au" target="_blank">shane@short.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">I’ll willingly say that NZ did it properly.<div><br></div><div>What killed our rollout is the NBN becoming a partisan issue. Once it became a political football, we all lost.</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div>-Shane</div></font></span><div><br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On 12 May 2017, at 12:17 pm, Tony Wicks <<a href="mailto:tony@wicks.co.nz" target="_blank">tony@wicks.co.nz</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_7186542271949187645Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div class="m_7186542271949187645WordSection1" style="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"><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>To amplify this a little, during UFB negotiations between the government and potential suppliers Telecom NZ was only allowed to compete if it split. As it turns out while Chorus (Telecom split) got most of the contract, in several significant areas existing power companies actually got the UFB contract and their GPON rollouts have actually been very successful. The addition of the power companies into the mix created a competitive environment, I bet that there was a regulation stopping that in Australia? (politics).<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>Friday afternoon wind up…. Lovley….<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span>>The big difference here from what I can see from the outside is politics and the big existing players fighting to the bitter end rather than just getting on board.<u></u><u></u></span></div><div style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span><u></u> <u></u></span></div></div></div></div><span class=""><span style="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;float:none;display:inline!important">______________________________<wbr>_________________</span><br style="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"><span style="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;float:none;display:inline!important">AusNOG mailing list</span><br style="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"><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline;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" target="_blank">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br style="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"><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog" style="color:purple;text-decoration:underline;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" target="_blank">http://lists.ausnog.net/<wbr>mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a></span></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div><br>______________________________<wbr>_________________<br>
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