[AusNOG] News: Minister Conroy contemplating Government-Funded undersea cable?

[Damian Guppy]

The NBN is justified as a comms network in Australia is a natural monopoly,
international cables are not so much and would be a bad move IMO

--Damian

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 9:42 AM, Sean K. Finn <sean.finn at ozservers.com.au>wrote:

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> *Threatens 'unfettered power' to drive down prices.*
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> Communications minister Stephen Conroy has threatened to fund a new
> submarine link between Australia and the US out of the National Broadband
> Network budget if international pricing does not fall to reasonable levels.
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