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

[Joshua D'Alton]

The irony of Turnbull being against monopolies I'm sure isn't lost to
members of this list, unfortunately the rest of the public are too stupid
to realize that without a government monopoly you end up with things like
the gang of four (even more ironically due to Telstra being government body
in the first place, allowing them to do the dodgy deed with very little
government intervention at the time).

Honestly we should just spend the 40 billion on buying some of Google, and
let them do their thing :D

On Fri, Sep 28, 2012 at 4:57 PM, Tom Berryman <tom at connectivityit.com.au>wrote:

>  Not exactly- as I understand it Malcolm Turnbull is supportive of a
> fibre to the node network, his opposition is to the NBN monopoly. He
> recently ‘opened’ a fibre to the home network near us delivered by Opticomm
> and stated his support for a competitive market place.****
>
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> *From:* ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:
> ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Damian Guppy
> *Sent:* Friday, 28 September 2012 4:48 PM
> *To:* Peter Tiggerdine
> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] News: Minister Conroy contemplating
> Government-Funded undersea cable?****
>
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>
> Hate to burst your bubble but federal politics are based on 3 year terms
> with senators getting an automatic 2 terms when elected. Conroy is a
> senator and got re-elected last election so he has a 6 year term :( the
> only reprieve is if labor loses but in that case we will probably lose the
> nbn as well.
>
> Sent from my iPhone****
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