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

[Paul Wallace]

Perhaps his VISA will expire soon and he'll have to go back to England!

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On 28/09/2012, at 2:48 PM, "Graeme Allen" <gallen at mytelecom.com.au> wrote:

> In communications are are well acquainted with the broken triangle
> (Fast, Cheap, Good: Pick two).
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> It seems My Conroy has achieved it;  Arrogant, Ignorant and Powerful.
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> Is there a countdown timer anywhere for the next election?
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> On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 13:07 +1000, Paul Wallace wrote:
>> I wish he’d build a bank instead to drive THOSE prices down!
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>> This Government is now well down the road to ruin QANTAS
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>> And well down the road of crippling further investment in mining
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>> They’ve already caused the crippling of investment in the
>> telecommunications sector 
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>> Perhaps it’s time to update the old Python role of ‘Minister for silly
>> walks’ to “Minster for stupid silly statements”.
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>> And to think this man graduated in Economics!
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>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
>> [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Sean K. Finn
>> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 11:42 AM
>> To: 'ausnog at lists.ausnog.net'
>> Subject: [AusNOG] News: Minister Conroy contemplating
>> Government-Funded undersea cable?
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>> http://www.itnews.com.au/News/317202,conroy-mulls-government-funded-subsea-fibre-link.aspx
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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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>> Discuss!
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