[LINK] Telstra - taking its ball and going home.

[Adam Todd]

Isn't this what the whole Census thing is about?

Finding out what services and needs people have in the bush?

Maybe they should have made the eCensus COMPULSORY for all persons, except 
those who have unreliable or limited Internet access ;)

With more and more people moving OUT of Sydney into regional NSW (pushing 
up regional house prices to ridiculous levels, and developers now buying 
any square inch they can anywhere in the state) the "Bush" isn't as 
unpopulated as it use to be.

Any smart Carrier is going to be putting in place NOW Strategies to provide 
incredibly competitive, if not LOWER COST than the CITY services in 
regional areas, speciallising in wireless communications that enable VoIP, 
Internet and highly mobile communications.

Forget the cities, they are over crowed and over serviced, find a market 
that has limited appeal, but a demand from a good number of consumers, 
entailing a market of volume and margin, rather than the city market which 
is all volume and marketING driven.

The costs to deploy in a regional town with a population of 2000 and you as 
the only or one of two providers, is the same as deploying in a city suburb 
with a population of 10,000 and 50 service providers - you have a better 
chance of offering a lower more competitive price to the regional consumers 
and gaining a higher share of the market, then you do in the city.

Then when you catch ALL of the regional market with a high subscriber base 
than the competistra, you SELL interconnect to Telstra or tell them they 
have to haul the data in from the USA :)

In the mean time, you provide a nice low cost local solution for entering 
into the local market and WHOLESALE purchase network access from Telstra 
for your clients, cheaper than Telstra can deliver it themselves!


BTW I saw a calling card poster advertised in the Post Office yesterday.

Calls to Africa, Asia and Eastern Europe were 0.5 cents per minute.
Calls to anywhere in Australia (except mobiles) was 4.5 cents per minute
Calls to the USA and UK were 1.2 cents per minute
Calls to the Middle East were 1.5 cents per minute.

Isn't that INTERESTING :)



At 05:38 PM 9/08/2006, Frank O'Connor wrote:
>The government was planning to make $2-3 billion available as part of 
>their ploy for appeasing the Nationals on the Telstra sale ... which 
>presumably would have gone into the infrastructuring of remote non-urban 
>areas that Telstra would have considered uneconomic.
>
>Now ... $2-3 billion buys an awful lot of fibre to the town (most of which 
>is already there in Victoria and NSW) and Satellite and Wireless and other 
>means to the farm. Telstra was of the opinion this was insufficient ... so 
>maybe they could let us know what would be sufficient.
>
>The bottom line I suppose is that Telstra wants nothing to do with the 
>bush, the government relies on the bush for votes and seats, and in any 
>event the bush deserves some consideration viz-a-viz telecommunications.
>
>None of the above of course excuses Telstra for its 20-30 years of neglect 
>of the network. They had the right idea in the late 70's ... "lets lay 
>fibre" ... but they never took it to its proper conclusion. (Perhaps 
>because the governments of the time were more interested in their annual 
>multi-billion dollar dividend than providing network infrastructure, and 
>since the privatisation this mind-set didn't change. As I said in an 
>earlier post ... bean counters run Telstra.)
>
>Net result: A dinosaur has more prospects of survival than an increasingly 
>obsolete Telstra. They're way slow on the wholesale end, still have to get 
>to grips with the 'client satisfaction' and 'service' and 'value' things 
>on the retail end, and unless Sol really pulls a rabbit out of the hat 
>tomorrow ... are bereft of ideas, plans and strategies for the future.
>
>                                                         Regards,
>
>At 12:08 PM +1000 9/8/06, Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
>>Howard Lowndes wrote:
>>>...and once again the rural/regionals have to wait.  I have 2 clients 
>>>whose circuits have only just been upgraded (or perhaps the dBA 
>>>standards threshold has been downgraded) enough to enable vanilla DSL.
>>>
>>>In fact one rural customer has 10 lines into their premises and only 1 
>>>came up to snuff, the other were either RIMs or just plain too noisy.
>>
>>...so whose responsibility is this and how should this infrastructure be 
>>funded...there was a snippet about Telstra agreeing to do the rural stuff 
>>if the other telcos paid for it, presumeably through the USO.
>>
>>Marghanita
>>--
>>Marghanita da Cruz
>>Ramin Communications
>>http://www.ramin.com.au
>>Phone: 0414-869202
>>Email: marghanita at ramin.com.au
>>
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