[AusNOG] Aggressive competition

[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

On 12/08/2010, at 4:13 PM, Kai wrote:

>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Matthew Moyle-Croft" <mmc at internode.com.au>
>> To: "Kai" <vk6ksj at westnet.com.au>
>> Cc: "AusNOG" <ausnog at ausnog.net>
>> Sent: Thursday, 12 August, 2010 3:46:29 PM GMT +09:30 Darwin
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Aggressive competition
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/08/2010, at 3:16 PM, Kai wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi guys and girls,
>>> 
>>> Please correct me if I'm wrong but whilst Telstra wholesale and retail are the same company, while they >continue to sell wholesale access cheaper to BigPond than to other ISP's
>> 
>> As others have said, Telstra's business units don't buy from Telstra Wholesale.  If they did then it'd be easy >as there would be a clearly defined price for wholesaling a service.   There isn't.   Telstra basically claim >to the ACCC to lose money on every service they offer, which is why the differential between Wholesale and >Retail is so small.   But apparently, according to their annual reports, they make money from something.
> 
> OK, so, the question still stands, if they're one company, how will they "fairly" compete?

You're funny.   Fair.  Hahahahha.

MMC