[AusNOG] NYTimes article on the NBN

[Alex Samad]

Wonder what the move is next for telcos in OZ

We saw TPG make a move with fibre to the premise (business).

I see Exetel using the NBN - in the CBD to offer fibre
I think Optus has some sort of ethernet to the building

Is it going to take another government initiative to push this forward
again...  My "sceptical - biased" opinion thinks the telco's will sit on
their current assets and upgrade at a snails pace - or potentially where
they can make money - I would believe the appetite for risk would low ...
But saying that TPG making a move on fairfax and mobile spectrum ....

A



On 12 May 2017 at 15:34, Shane Short <shane at short.id.au> wrote:

> 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).
>
> Friday afternoon wind up…. Lovley….
>
> >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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