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

[Richard Chirgwin]

Tom

On 7/03/12 2:20 PM, TKoltai wrote:
> 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....)
Endeavour, Southern Cross, PPC-1, Australia-Japan Cable. Pacific Fibre 
is still proceeding with its build, Huawei is planning a cable.

The cables and planned cables are easily discoverable. There's map at 
Telegeography. With names, build dates, everything. At least learn if a 
fact exists before you ignore it, you'll get that much more pleasure out 
of ignoring it.
>
> 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...
All cables have unlit capacity. All cables are able to be upgraded. 
Southern Cross now runs at many times its original build capacity. 
That's not some nefarious plot, it's sensible design.

And, as I noted, there are four current and at least two planned cables, 
excluding the Leighton's cable.

RC
>
> 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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