[LINK] FW: NBN Connectivity being Threatened....

TKoltai tomk at unwired.com.au
Wed Mar 7 14:20:10 AEDT 2012


Sorry Linkers, this was meant to be sent to all and not just Scott.

-----Original Message-----
From: TKoltai [mailto:tomk at unwired.com.au] 
Sent: Monday, 5 March 2012 3:35 PM
To: 'Scott Howard'
Subject: RE: [LINK] NBN Connectivity being Threatened....


Because 
 
1.    Global Crossing has been pulled back by NZ Telecom for the NZ
Broadband Chorus rollout, which is the main reason why AAPT had to sell
their internet users to iiNet.
 
That leaves Endeavour or PPC-1. (Jasaurus doesn't really count....)
 
2.    Telstra already have 1.2 TB unused on Endeavour that they are
holding in reserve. If they now buy up the majority of Capacity on the
new ASSC cable then Australia will have only 2 choices;
    a. The almost saturated PPC-1 or, 
    b. Telstra...
 
The ASSC cable is a direct response by Huawei to the Government not
allowing them to play in the Cellular wireless NBN game. (It's called,
"Many ways to skin the same cat").
 
TomK

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott Howard [mailto:scott at doc.net.au] 
Sent: Monday, 5 March 2012 2:58 PM
To: TKoltai
Cc: link at anu.edu.au
Subject: Re: [LINK] NBN Connectivity being Threatened....


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. 
 




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