[AusNOG] AAB Statement

[Paul Brooks]

  On 3/09/2010 2:32 PM, James Spenceley wrote:
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>> Telstra being paid to migrate customers from the copper network to the fibre is a strange one,
> That deal is still closed, which kind of blows me away. Shouldn't it be offered to everyone openly on equal terms ?

If you look at the deal, one interpretation was mainly to obtain faster (in time) and 
less obstructed access to ducts and cores in existing fibre cables, thus reducing the 
cost of NBN deployment. They are paying a bulk rate for dark-fibre access and duct 
access, as much as they are paying for the customer base. I'm sure anyone with a 
on-net retail customer base, and a ready supply of deployed ducts and fibre which 
could be useful, might be able to negotiate a similar deal :-)


> The other aspect, if I was a retail ISP (and I am certainly am not) I'd also be very scared that Telstra is going to have an $11b war chest to attack the market with. That is going to be a very scary gorilla looking to increase market share.
>
+1 to that - and I'm sure this exchange closure 
<http://www.theaustralian.com.au/australian-it/telecommunications/telstra-move-to-close-exchange-worries-rivals/story-fn4iyzsr-1225913520295?referrer=email&source=AIT_email_nl&emcmp=Ping&emchn=Newsletter&emlist=Member> 
is not news to many on this list, and a reminder of why time to move beyond debate to 
deployment is not infinite.

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