[AusNOG] AAB Statement

[Tim McCullagh]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Grahame Lynch" <grahamelynch at commsdaymail.com>
To: "Tim McCullagh" <technical at halenet.com.au>
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 10:44 PM
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] AAB Statement


> 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.


Absolutely correct

Regards
 
Tim