[LINK] community telcos

[rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au]

Howard Lowndes wrote:

>On Tue, 2004-12-21 at 15:18, David Lochrin wrote:
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>>   I thought the biggest player in Australia was Neighbourhood Cable Pty. Limited, who I think arose from Bendigo Bank.  There's a Hansard report at http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/senate/commttee/S6356.pdf which has the Legal Counsel & Company Secretary, Chief Operating Officer, and Commercial Manager of Neighbourhood Cable as witnesses, together with the CEO of Bendigo Community Telco.  Perhaps that would be useful?
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>They were making a lot of noise about 3-4 years back about doing a
>rollout in Albury.  It seems to have died.  I guess they realised that
>in the newer residential development areas around Albury, which I guess
>would represent their major market, all of the services are underground.
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Neighbourhood Cable's in Mildura, Ballarat and Geelong (from its 
Website) so I guess it's given up on Albury for the moment. It's also 
involved in a PON trial with COLT, I think? I'd consider NC to be a bit 
bigger than the typical Community Telco profile.

Even so it's spending somewhat more than it makes, according to the most 
recent ASX annual report.

RC

>Ausstar are struggling to make any impact so I guess cable would have no
>chance.
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