[AusNOG] Australia ranks 50th in the world for average internet speeds at 9.6Mbps...

[Paul Wilkins]

Mark,
Are you saying the best way to get out from underneath NBN to create a
level playing field for ISP competition, is to move to Antarctica?

Also the mission of NBN altered course post the defeat of the Rudd
government in the 2013 Federal Election. Which is not to say I'd be the
first to suggest that the stated political aims of NBN and actual business
practices are not necessarily congruent. The argument and justification of
a national monopoly has always been national infrastructure, not creating a
captive market in the final mile.

Kind regards

Paul Wilkins

On 21 March 2017 at 13:09, Mark Delany <g2x at juliet.emu.st> wrote:

> > Australia       2
>
> It's actually closer to:
>
> Australia         1
>
> Everyone forgots to add in the 5.8million km2 of the Australian
> Antarctic territories.
>
> > I had thought the primary motivation of NBN had always been to
> > provide carriage to R&R areas, but actually they seem intent mostly
> > on capturing a monopoly in the final mile. Weird.
>
> You might want to check the archives. I think the primary motivation
> was made clear around 2011 or so.
>
>
> Mark.
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