[AusNOG] NBN: "i want a pony! but can I afford it"

[Tim McCullagh]

----- Original Message ----- 
  From: PRK 

  PRK wrote:
  "Where does your assumption, that replacing Telstra's copper with NBNCo fibre reduces competition, come from?"


  Your kidding aren't you.
  If you have 3 fixed networks currently and all the IP traffic from them is going to be moved to NBN (monopoly PMG style network) and the copper is to be shutdown then where is the competition going to come from?   NBNco will have you by the short and curlys.    NBNco will dictate what you can have, there will be no other option.   You won't be able to have adsl because the copper won't be available

  I suggest you read the 25million NBN report recommendations and other articles in the public domain about what is being proposed.   I would also suggest that quiet a lot of people that think they are going to get fibre may be disappointed and in some cases may end up with a 12MB service of sat or maybe wireless.   Mostly in regional areas or city fringe areas. 

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