[AusNOG] iiNet buys Adam

[Bevan Slattery]

More importantly iiNet are looking at building a moonbase now the
acquisition is complete!

http://games.on.net/2013/08/iinet-buys-adam-internet-sets-sights-on-moonbase
-by-end-of-2014/

[b]

From:  Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org>
Date:  Tuesday, 6 August 2013 10:09 AM
To:  Peter Tiggerdine <ptiggerdine at gmail.com>
Cc:  "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
Subject:  Re: [AusNOG] iiNet buys Adam


On Aug 6, 2013, at 9:17 AM, Peter Tiggerdine <ptiggerdine at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it me of is ACCC playing favoritism with every other ISP other than
> Telstra?

Aside from Rob Hudson's comments (which, IMHO, were spot-on), the bigger
picture here is that "playing favoritism with every ISP other than Telstra"
is precisely what the ACCC is supposed to do.

Telstra began its life as the one-and-only carrier license holder, the only
organization that could legally provide carrier services, 100% market share.
Then "competition" was introduced, and a bunch of
telecommunications-specific laws were implemented to transition Telstra from
100% market share to something approximating a "fair" market share.

Or, to put it another way: Telecommunications competition policy in
Australia has a specific aim of reducing Telstra's reach and influence.

They aren't supposed to be treated fairly.  Twenty years after the
introduction of competition, they remain utterly dominant in retail, and
mostly dominant almost everywhere else.  The role of the ACCC is to promote
better consumer outcomes by driving competition by tilting the playing field
against Telstra.

I wonder how many of their shareholders have ever understood that?

  - mark


_______________________________________________ AusNOG mailing list
AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/attachments/20130806/7cf34cf0/attachment.html>