[AusNOG] AAPT / TPG Merge NWB

[Paul Gear]

On 06/05/2014 05:45 PM, Jake Anderson wrote:
> On 05/06/14 08:00, Curtis Bayne wrote:
>
>> Regardless of any theological thought experiment, the pragmatic 
>> reality is that the only thing that has delivered reasonable outcomes 
>> to consumers in Australia is infrastructure competition.
>>
> Yes, because there is so much choice over just whose copper network 
> you are going to connect your dslam to, what with all the 
> infrastructure competition out there. 

There seems to be an assumption there that consumers using the copper 
network have a reasonable outcome.  I certainly wouldn't agree with that 
assumption.  The unreliability of the copper network is the bane of my 
existence at the moment, and the outcome of a previous thread on the 
topic (http://lists.ausnog.net/pipermail/ausnog/2014-March/023161.html) 
was basically that if we're on copper, we're stuck with whatever outcome 
(reasonable or not) that Telstra deigns to bless us with. Last mile 
infrastructure competition would be a huge bonus for Australian consumers.

Paul