[AusNOG] background radiation was: "i want a pony!"(wasRe:Longlive the NBN. The NBN is dead?! [personal])

[Jason Lingohr]

 Hear hear!  Whomever claims PMG "plan" works today should be shot.


On 12/08/2010 7:20 PM, Curtis Bayne wrote:
>
> Wait. I'm confused. We're using the construction and subsequent sale
> of PMG (now Telstra) as the definition of success of a state-owned
> telco monopoly, whilst on the other hand, a consortium of providers
> are complaining about anti-competitive practices?
>
> http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/354465/bigpond_price_cuts_anger_internode_iinet/
>
> What's to say that once independent infrastructure is eliminated that
> the same practices won't emerge (especially if the new shareholders of
> the NBN have a vested interest in the telecommunications industry)...
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Moyle-Croft [mailto:mmc at internode.com.au]
> Sent: Thu 8/12/2010 6:42 PM
> To: roland at chan.id.au
> Cc: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net; Curtis Bayne; ausnog at ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] background radiation was: "i want a
> pony!"(wasRe:Longlive the NBN. The NBN is dead?! [personal])
>
> Brilliant Roland.
>
> PMG built the PSTN with regulatory certainty for more than 80 years.  
> Money was invested and built out for the good of all, then it was sold
> off.
>
> So, the Government is just following a proven business model. 
>
> What's not to like?
>
> MMC
>
> On 12/08/2010, at 5:22 PM, <roland at chan.id.au> wrote:
>
> > Who built the PSTN? Who paid for it? Did they get a fair return from
> decades of line rental  and the eventual sale of Telstra?
> >
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