[LINK] Telstra's NBN bid rejected

[David Boxall]

At 12:29 PM Michael Skeggs mike at bystander.net wrote:
> 2008/12/15 Jan Whitaker <jwhit at melbpc.org.au>:
>> I heard recently
> >from someone who knows this stuff that Telstra has installed a LOT of
>> technology that it hasn't turned on yet and at one time left it dark
>> until the govt [Howard] came up with a subsidy. The equipment was
>> ALREADY THERE. To me that's called fraud.]
>
> This was probably the ADSL2+ DSLAM roll out. The boxes were installed
> all over, but only activated for ADSL2+ speeds in exchanges where a
> competitor had installed a competing DSLAM. When the ALP were elected,
> Conroy sent a letter to Sol, which Sol claimed meant Telstra would not
> be required to wholesale the service under ACCC purview. They then
> turned all the ADSL2+ DSLAMs on in a few weeks.
Five years ago I was told that, when replacing old copper in my area, 
Telstra installed both new copper and fibre.  For details, see 
<http://david.boxall.name/Phone1.html>.  The fibre's still dark.

At 11:53 AM Marghanita da Cruz wrote:
> Don't know that the government has to level the playing field - they only have
> to make sure everyone has a playing field
The surest way to prevent predation is to dismember the potential 
predator.  Time to revisit structural separation?
 
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David Boxall                    |  All that is required
                                |  for evil to prevail is
                                |  for good men to do nothing.
                                |     -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)