[AusNOG] AAB Statement

[Bevan Slattery]

> 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.

Amen. It was the 100% Government owned fixed line monopoly being Telstra
that decided to overbuild Optus to protect it's position.  At least
under the NBN 2.0 implementation study they've come up for a solution to
stop that from happening again.

Unfortunately, it's not be forcing the new 100% Government owned
monopoly NBN Co.) from using it's market power to disrupt competing
infrastructure owners.  It's the very novel idea of creating a tax or
'cherry-picking' tariff that would have stopped competition in the first
place.

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