[LINK] Re: Link Digest, Vol 175, Issue 52

[Adam Todd]

At 11:48 AM 24/06/2007, Stewart Fist wrote:
>Adam replied to Jan
> >
> >> BUT if Jamie Packer wants to buy an outback property and run a fibre
> >> link to it -- and PAY for that -- he should be allowed, right?
> >
> > No, he doesn't have a carrier licence.  (We'll he probably does
> > somewhere in the empire.)
>
>His father Kerry had a private microwave link from Channel 9 in Artarmon to
>his home at Palm Beach,

That wouldn't be illegal as it's within the oganisation.

>and he also installed an illegal link down to his
>ski complex at Thredbo

can't imagine that being much different.  Provided he wasn't selling 
or providing neighbours with telephone or internet services, it would be legal.


>So don't be too sure, Adam.
>
>Anyway, it only costs $12k for a license, from memory

I thought I read somewhere recently it was dropped to $5000?

>Chicken feed.

Yep.

But the 20 people you have to employ to deal with the government 
paperwork isn't so chicken feed.