[AusNOG] Mike Quigley has resigned

Fri Jul 12 12:05:18 EST 2013

So that makes it OK does it?

I still recall the genius'' in Canberra railing against Telstra & 'Opts-At Home' (presided over by Chris Chapman at the time, now Chairman of the ACMA) building out two HFC networks!

Long term sustained attacks were leveled at the concurrent rollout of these two largely 'privately held' networks ... "it's a waste" they protested "they should be made to work together" they hollered.

15 years later they go it themselves & it vastly more expensive way.

Telstra is currently getting the fibre out there so quickly that we'll end up half pregnant (yet again)

The famous "made it up on the back of an envelope on a 40 minute flight to Melbourne' resonates long & loud.

Why is Government getting BACK INTO business whilst the entire rest of the OECD is getting OUT of it?

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Skeeve Stevens
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 11:58 AM
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Mike Quigley has resigned

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra

Government (via the Future Fund) only owns 10.9% of Telstra - according to Wikipedia.

Privatisation

Telstra was privatised in three different stages, informally known as "T1" ($3.30), "T2" ($7.40) and "T3" ($3.60) in 1997, 1999 and 2006 respectively.[5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra#cite_note-autogenerated1-5>[6]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra#cite_note-6> In T1, the government sold one third of its shares in Telstra for A$14 billion and publicly listed the company on the Australian Stock Exchange.[5]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra#cite_note-autogenerated1-5> In 1999, a further 16% of Telstra shares were sold to the public, leaving the Australian government with 51% ownership. In 2006, T3 was announced by the government and was the largest of the three public releases, reducing the Government's ownership of Telstra to 17%.[7]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra#cite_note-7> The 17% remainder of Telstra was placed in Australia's Future Fund<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_Fund>, which will provide superannuation<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superannuation> and pensions<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pension> for Australia's public servants<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_servants>.[8]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra#cite_note-8> In 2009, the Future Fund sold off another $2.4B worth of shares reducing the government's stake in Telstra to 10.9%.[9]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telstra#cite_note-9>

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On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Paul Wallace <paul.wallace at mtgi.com.au<mailto:paul.wallace at mtgi.com.au>> wrote:
Can someone explain to me why we're supporting the concurrent role-out of TWO fibre networks by Government owned Carriers?

That would be Telstra + NBNco obviously

Don't forget for a moment that Telstra continues to be half owned by the Government & The ALP is fundamentally opposed, root & branch, to selling the remaining 49% off.

It's a disgrace on a massive scale.

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net<mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net>] On Behalf Of Matt Perkins
Sent: Friday, July 12, 2013 10:59 AM
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Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Mike Quigley has resigned

That's a shame. I was always impressed with his understanding of the NBN's big picture. Pity he never got a lot of cut through in the main stream media. I guess that's what happens when you render there broadcast linences and pay TV networks redundant overnight.

Matt.

On 12/07/13 10:50 AM, Peter Childs wrote:

Even the NBN web site - so I might believe it

http://www.nbnco.com.au/about-us/media/news/nbn-co-chief-executive-announces-retirement.html

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Date: Friday, 12 July 2013 10:10 AM
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Subject: [AusNOG] Mike Quigley has resigned

It's all over the news.

See full statement:
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