[AusNOG] Simon Hackett's slide deck from AusNOG 2014 with added audio

[Scott Howard]

On Wed, Sep 10, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Beeson, Ayden <ABeeson at csu.edu.au> wrote:

> Arguably, the biggest issue in the U.S. internet market is the lack of an
> options and no level playing field. With all their cable companies carving
> the country up into unofficial monopolies you have exactly what you don’t
> want, with incumbent providers having no business drive to actually compete
> or upgrade services.
>

According to the FCC, 70% of US households have at least 2 options for
providers.  How does that compare to Australia in terms of physical
hardware (Not including exchanges that only have Telstra DSLAMS, for
example).

I've lived in the same apartment in California for about 5 years, and in
that time my broadband speed has increased at least 3 times- without a
significant increase in price (<10% - around the same as inflation). The
competitive provider to the one I use has also increased their speed at
least 2-fold in the same time.

I now have the choice of HFC running at up to 105Mbps, or FTTN/VDSL at
45Mbps.  That's a "lack of options" I'm happy with...

  Scott
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