[AusNOG] Aust Govt will build National Broadband Network, no company will be awarded the tender.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Matthew Moyle-Croft 
  To: Matthew Moyle-Croft 
  Cc: Tim McCullagh ; ausnog at ausnog.net ; Bevan Slattery 
  Sent: Sunday, April 12, 2009 11:39 AM
  Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Aust Govt will build National Broadband Network,no company will be awarded the tender.


  It's also worth mentioning in the history of last-mile in Australia - the government (through PMG etc) built the last comprehensive LMN in the country whilst it had a monopoly.   TLS has done little to it since.

  What about the Optus and Telstra HFC networks where they duplicated 2.2 million homes?  In those areas they now have ADSL2 and 2 HFC networks where other areas have nothing.  I guess T and O learnt a lot of lessons out of that.  They both lost a lot of money, which consumers will have paid for since

  This example is at the core of why there has been so little investment since.  The regulations did not encourage the risk associated with deploying an alternative network.  Telstra simply followed Optus down every street they went to and because they already had a relationship with the customers and were offering the same product at the same price kept the customers.  The same may also happen with NBN in one form or another

  I would address this issue if I was in government by calling tenders for the provision of services in geographic regions along with giving a regulatory honeymoon period where the network can not be over built along with the necessary regulatory open access guidelines etc etc, not by duplicating it all again. 

  Regards
   
  Tim
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