[LINK] NBN Connectivity being Threatened....

[Scott Howard]

On Sun, Mar 4, 2012 at 7:44 PM, TKoltai <tomk at unwired.com.au> wrote:

> This is bad people...
>

No, it's just market forces at work.



> If we Let The Telco's get away with this one, we'll all have Fibre to
> the home connected to .... Telstra.
>

Where does Telstra come into this?  There are now countless cables coming
into Australia, the majority of them having nothing to do with Telstra with
the possible exception of Telstra being a customer.  Market saturation is
the exact opposite of a monopoly.


Quote/
> What's worse is that a number of them
> have told The Australian Financial Review that they are far more
> inclined to latch on the network being built by Huawei
> Technologies-backed ASSC-1 Communications Group. ASSC-1 has already
> bagged Telstra as a foundation customer and if the likes of iiNet and
> Amcom follow suit then it could be curtains for the Leighton
> Communications Australia-Singapore Cable./Quote
>

So why is this cable any worse for the country than Leighton's cable?  The
marketplace has obviously decided that this is the way to go.

  Scott.