Goodbye Telstra, Hullo ACTEW (FYI)

[Gordon Keith]

On 10 Oct 97 at 10:39, David Nicholls wrote:

>      In fact, we have virtually *no* cable draped among our trees
>      here, of any flavour.  Unless Telstroptus gets a huge move on,
>      ACTEW will be the first by far.  I suspect that will be the
>      excuse Telstroptus needs to do nothing.

My understanding was that both Telstra and Optus have approached 
ACTEW to let them put fibre on it's poles. It's answer has been it 
will put in the fibre and lease it back to them.

Someone was smart enough to see that rather than allow duplication of 
a service it could make money from providing the service. 

Gordon




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