[LINK] Customers may be forced on to NBN to keep phones

[Richard Chirgwin]

  On 12/10/10 11:41 AM, Max Devlin wrote:
> On 12 October 2010 06:35, Richard Chirgwin<rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au>  wrote:
>
>> "Customers who want a fixed line telephone today are forced to connect
>> to Telstra copper".
> Most homes are already connected but there is also:
>
> optus cable
> ndsl and your choice of netphone poison
Conceded that 500k customers connect to Optus instead. That's pretty 
much the whole of the access connection choice, barring a few people 
living in fibre-connected housing estates, who are subject to a 
*different* access monopoly.

As to DSL - eg, "Naked" plans - it's a change of retail / wholesale 
relationship. You're still "forced" to connect to Telstra's copper to do 
so. It's just that you do so with zero relationship with Telstra 
(because the service provider handles that part).

RC
>
>> "The government revealed" is bullshit, since this has been known since
>> Conroy discussed it before the election. "Last night" is bullshit since
>> this has been (once again) a story since last week.
>
> I realise there are a lot of kites in the sky at the moment. And I
> dont think this is from the gummit :-)
>
>> :->
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