[AusNOG] News: TPG gets green light to connect fibre to basement in apartments

[Skeeve Stevens]

Update from ITNews...

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/391995,turnbull-seeks-wholesale-access-from-all-fttb-carriers.aspx?utm_source=feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=iTnews+


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On 11 September 2014 10:01, Skeeve Stevens <
skeeve+ausnog at eintellegonetworks.com> wrote:

> From:
> http://www.smh.com.au/business/the-economy/tpg-gets-green-light-to-connect-fibre-to-basement-in-apartments-20140911-10f9i2.html
>
>
> TPG forced to separate wholesale and retails divisions.... I didn't think
> anything could make me happier than the Apple announcements this week.
>
> #EatItTPG
>
> -----
>
> TPG Telecom will be allowed by the competition regulator to keep
> connecting urban apartments to its high speed broadband network despite NBN
> Co's claim it could lead to its business case collapsing and the potential
> it could add billions of dollars in expenses to the Budget.
>
>
> But Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull will push to force the
> functional separation of TPG Telecom's wholesale and retail divisions as
> part of a new license arrangement.
>
>
> TPG Telecom launched its plan to connect 500,000 apartments and businesses
> to a fibre-to-the-basement network that provided internet speeds similar to
> those offered by the national broadband network.
>
>
> The company used a clause that allowed networks built before 2011 to be
> extended by 1 kilometre to go around laws designed to stop NBN Co from
> having any competition.
>
>
> But NBN Co opposed the measure because it has been ordered to build
> broadband services to unprofitable rural and regional areas and must use
> lucrative city homes and businesses to help pay for the construction.
>
>
> If TPG Telecom is allowed to own and operate its network bigger rivals
> like Telstra have indicated they would want to be able to compete and
> experts have warned this could force billions of dollars in extra expenses
> onto the Budget.
>
>
> "Having carefully examined TPG's plans, the ACCC does not propose to take
> further action in relation to TPG's planned fibre to the basement network
> rollout to supply residential customers in high-rise buildings in Brisbane,
> Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth," Australian Competition and Consumer
> Commission chair Rod Sims said. "TPG's networks were capable of supplying
> superfast carriage services to small business or residential customers at 1
> January 2011.
>
>
> "The ACCC will now conduct a declaration inquiry into whether a superfast
> broadband access service like the type to be provided by TPG over its
> fibre-to-the-basement networks should be the subject of access regulation."
>
>
> Mr Turnbull said in a statement he would speed up the process of imposing
> restrictions on companies looking to compete against NBN Co in a move that
> could make TPG's plan unprofitable.
>
>
> "The public inquiry process for declaring a category of telecommunications
> services can take up to a year, however, which creates a window of
> potential instability and industry uncertainty," he said. "The licence
> condition would require owners of high-speed networks affected by the
> ACCC's declaration process to functionally separate their wholesale
> operations, and to provide access to competing service providers on the
> same terms as it is provided to their own retail operations.
>
>
> "This licence condition would remain in place for two years – allowing the
> ACCC to undertake its declaration inquiry, the recommendations of the
> Vertigan panel to be properly considered, and long-term regulatory
> arrangements for the sector to be settled."
>
>
> -----
>
>
>
>
> ...Skeeve
>
> *Skeeve Stevens - *eintellego Networks Pty Ltd
> skeeve at eintellegonetworks.com ; www.eintellegonetworks.com
>
> Phone: 1300 239 038; Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve
>
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