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

[Richard Chirgwin]

  On 12/10/10 4:26 PM, Max Devlin wrote:
> On 12/10/2010, Michael Skeggs mike at bystander.net<mskeggs at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> The $11bn agreement with Telstra was for the decommissioning of the
>>   copper network and agreement to move Telstra customers to the NBN,
>>   along with access to their ducts to lay the fibre.
>
> I recall media reports that Telstra's wholesale network would be split
> from it's retail operations. There was no mention of replacing copper.
Yes, there was. The aim, under the Telstra / NBN deal, is to 
simultaneously decommission copper and commission fibre in any given 
service area.

Rollout timing is important to ISPs with DSLAMs, since they need to plan 
the depreciation of their networks (remember that rollout is an 
eight-year project). An ISP with DSLAMs will eventually switch them off.

Telstra won't keep the copper network under the NBN plan, it will switch 
it off and migrate its customers to the NBN wholesale network.

RC
> So to clarify?:
>
> * Telstra now buys local mile access for BB/phone from NBN like anyone else.
> * Telstra keeps it's other "ageing" networks.
> * Other ISP's/Telco's buy from NBN where necessary but keep (not hand
> over) existing networks.
>
> I note the irony of going from Telstra monopoly to NBN monopoly. I
> dont expect this to be trouble free. It might stop Telstra using
> market dominance to crush competitors but NBN will likely develop it's
> own arrogance. All monopolies do. Will this end up win-win?
>
>> :->
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