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

[Paul Wallace]

I agree with you Mark!

Paul






-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Mark Newton
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 12:04 PM
To: Sean K. Finn
Cc: 'ausnog at lists.ausnog.net'
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] News: Minister Conroy contemplating Government-Funded undersea cable?

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 11:42:23AM +1000, Sean K. Finn wrote:

 > 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.

Well, I look forward to observing the rivers (torrents?) of new investment that'll be attracted to new trans-Pacific submarine cable projects now that the Government has announced it'll price them out of the market.

Given that he's unlikely to be a Minister by this time next year, there isn't a lot of point taking anything he says very seriously anymore. 
He doesn't have time to do much more damage.

  - mark
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