[AusNOG] Help with NBN questions.

[Bevan Slattery]

> 2) someone told me that anyone who competes with the NBN will 
> face prosecution? does this mean anyone who builds a fibre 
> network (I just plainly don't know what to take with that)

Kind of.  The report suggests that if you 'cherry pick' and rollout out
services that compete within limited areas, then they recommended to the
government they should introduce a levy.

So, if Telstra were still under Government control and say a fibre
company like PIPE Networks decided there was a business case to deliver
competitive backhaul to say 200 exchanges, the reports suggests the
Government should levy said commercial operator out of those markets.

So in essence, they are recommending that if the socialist investment
fails to be competitive in a market area (say backhaul or FttP in areas
already service by NBN 2.0), then we should deem that to be 'cherry
picking' and in order to protect said socialist investment, the
Government should have the ability to introduce a levy or 'supertax' on
any telecommunications investment that competes with it, to make sure
that said competitive telco investment no longer makes sense and the
monopoly will retain it's position and be able to continue to excert
unparalleled market and legislative power and if deemed appopriate,
obtain monopoly rents from Australian citizens and businesses.

Yep - I think I captured it succinctly.

[b]