[AusNOG] Just in - Regulatory reforms aimed at breaking up Telstra

[Paul Brooks]

James Spenceley wrote:
> You know, I keep checking that the date isn't 1st April 
>
> :-)
>
> --
> James
For sure - this is the second big surprise. Whatever you think of his 
efforts so far, noone can complain that he's cruising, and he seems to 
run a fairly leak-proof ship.

When everyone was expecting an announcement of a winner of a $4.7B FTTN 
network, he announces a new process for a $43B FTTH instead - just as 
many were asking for.
Now when we are told that new legislative changes will be released for 
comment 'could be within a few weeks', he comes out with this only a 
couple of days later - and I'd hazard a guess that this goes much 
further than anyone could have expected, let alone hoped for - and very 
little prior indication of the scale of what was coming out in either case.

Reminds me of the old saying "Be careful what you wish for - you just 
might have it come true"

P.

(ps no idea what happened with the ausnog list posting delay - the 
message didn't appear on Ausnog until two hours after I sent it!)