[AusNOG] AAB Statement

[Grahame Lynch]

And let's not forget that the reason Telstra was encouraged by Paul
Keating to roll out after Optus was because of his personal enmity
towards Kerry Packer - a shareholder in Optus Vision. He expressly
claimed on a TV interview in 1996 that Optus' request for overbuild
protection from then government owned Telstra was a "Packer scam".

Some claim the HFC rollouts as evidence of market failure in broadband.

No. They are evidence of what happens when the owner of one network is
also the regulator of a challenger to it.

Deja vu.

On 03/09/2010, Tim McCullagh <technical at halenet.com.au> wrote:
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>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: phil colbourn
>   To: ausnog at ausnog.net
>   Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2010 11:32 PM
>   Subject: Re: [AusNOG] AAB Statement
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>   Both Optus and Telstra gave up after the rules changed and it was not as
> easy to roll-out cable.
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>   That is no the reason why.  It had absolutely nothing to do with the low
> impact changes.  It came down to the business case.  Telstra only build HFC
> as a market protection strategy.  Telstra started paying their contrators
> massive money to build it out which meant Optus had to pay massive prices
> for labour.  Then Telstra offered bundled services and the like which meant
> Optus was flat out getting 30% market share.  Optus realised the business
> case was gone and stopped deploying.  Then so did telstra.     I could go
> on.
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