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

[Noel Butler]

On Fri, 2012-09-28 at 11:42 +1000, Sean K. Finn wrote:
> 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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LOL, friday arvo funnies... Did conroy start drinking early?

it's apparently cheaper to get a per MB price to L.A on southern cross
cable, than per MB on NBN at 10km's


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