[AusNOG] NYTimes article on the NBN

[Shane Short]

I’ll willingly say that NZ did it properly.

What killed our rollout is the NBN becoming a partisan issue. Once it became a political football, we all lost.

-Shane

> On 12 May 2017, at 12:17 pm, Tony Wicks <tony at wicks.co.nz> wrote:
> 
> To amplify this a little, during UFB negotiations between the government and potential suppliers Telecom NZ was only allowed to compete if it split. As it turns out while Chorus (Telecom split) got most of the contract, in several significant areas existing power companies actually got the UFB contract and their GPON rollouts have actually been very successful. The addition of the power companies into the mix created a competitive environment, I bet that there was a regulation stopping that in Australia? (politics).
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> Friday afternoon wind up…. Lovley….
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> >The big difference here from what I can see from the outside is politics and the big existing players fighting to the bitter end rather than just getting on board.
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