[AusNOG] Labor backflips again.......

[James Spenceley]

Hi Jas,

Not to mention that other foundation argument that NBNCo will be wholesale only, now completely "modified", It's perfectly clear NBN will nothing even close to wholesale only. 

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James



On 24/03/2011, at 4:38 PM, Jason Sinclair wrote:

> I find it truly amazing that one of the foundation “arguments” for the NBN uniform pricing and that which garnered the support of the Independents has now conveniently been “modified”. Originally all regional, rural and metro areas were supposed to pay the same price for the NBN regardless. Now it is only for the lowest speed plans and if you want comparable higher speed plans uniform pricing only applies to the “same technology”.
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> NBN: “So Mr Farmer – you want 100Mb access to the NBN – that’s 10x the price of the metro area”.
> Mr Farmer: “But what about uniform pricing?”
> NBN: “But you are in the sticks and we can’t roll fibre out here – we are delivering this over satellite. And satellite is more expensive. If we rolled it out on fibre it would be the same price. You do want us to make a commercial return don’t you from your hard earned taxes that are paying for this surely??”
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> Isn’t it kinda comical how the “good” reasons for these new Bills, gagging the ACCC, etc were convenient to support national uniform pricing, but then don’t really mean that at all…… Gotta remember that for my business plan.
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> Jas
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