[LINK] Telstra ultimatum on fibre

[Saliya Wimalaratne]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 12:06:12PM +1000, Chris Maltby wrote:
> Those words were my addition - the report I heard was that there is room
> within the proposed Telstra nodes for additional mux cards. But these things
> would be made/supplied in sufficient quantity to allow minor specification
> changes for little or no cost - much less than the cost of a duplicate FTTN
> network.

Pfft.

Telstra 'make space' for someone else? That'd be silly. 

Ever had a look inside of an existing Telstra exchange? 

There's kit in some of the ones I've seen from the 70's. Not powered up. 
But taking up rack space. We are talking cathedral ceilings. 

Why is it still there? 

So that when competitor <x> says "I have a carrier licence, I need
to put my (superlative deleted) equipment in" Telstra can say "I'm sorry,
there isn't the physical space for that". 

When does it get removed? 

When it's no longer needed. Interestingly, newer Telstra equipment seems
to need space at roughly the same time. It's a shame that the extra space
doesn't seem to co-incide with other carriers' requirements; but then 
Telstra has always been pretty good at running the numbers. 

I'd be interested to see a record of carrier space applications vs. rejections
and have that correlated against Telstra 'application' (they don't)
vs 'ditch this old gear that's disabled'. 

Yes, transmission over fibre is getting more efficient. Will this make a 
difference to the populace or to !Telstra? No. Not with the installed base
that they have. Something significant is required regulatory-wise...
and the ACCC frankly doesn't have the balls anymore. 

I wonder if filtering software will censor my post ? :) 

Regards,

Saliya