[AusNOG] FTTH - Dreaming?

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

On 16/08/2008, at 2:48 PM, Curtis Bayne wrote:

> Yup, just as I expected. First paragraph and they're bashing Telstra  
> already.
>
> Dear reporters: Telstra is here, they're the reason a number of  
> rural Australians have access to DSL/ISDN where it would never have  
> been profitable to do so


I have no doubt that some small parts and some specific customers are  
a net-loss but given the prices people pay in regional areas for  
telephony now and historically and the actual lack of evidence that  
non-metro is a bad business to be in, I find it difficult to believe  
this meme Telstra have always pushed.   If indeed it was such a poor  
business then I'd expect they would have itemised it in their annual  
accounts, they'd have shown the government to increase USO, that they  
may have made some effort to sell the business off.   Of course, they  
wouldn't do this because this "bad business" has kindly paid for all  
the sites and backhaul for NextG ...

MMC
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Matthew Moyle-Croft Internode/Agile Peering and Core Networks