[LINK] Another example of whose ox

[Jan Whitaker]

[Linkers may be familiar with the phrase: whose 
ox is being gored. Here's a whopper. NBN has now 
flipped into a mix of competition with the open 
market instead of a state owned regulated 
monopoly to enable a retail playing field. It's a 
little bit pregnant, I guess.]


NBN Co spending big to fight off cherry-picking telcos

http://www.theage.com.au/business/nbn-co-spending-big-to-fight-off-cherrypicking-telcos-20140415-36pmz.html
David Ramli
Published: April 15, 2014 - 5:40PM

NBN Co is set to ramp up its spending to fight 
would be competitors such as TPG Telecom in an 
effort to shore up its profitability which it claims is under threat.

The strategy is part of NBN Co’s response to TPG 
Telecom’s plan to connect lucrative urban 
apartment-dwellers with a rival fibre to the basement network.

NBN Co will speed up the launch of its fibre to 
the premise and basement services for apartments 
and office blocks to stop TPG from locking 
customers and building owners into exclusive contracts.

TPG’s share price fell 26¢ on Tuesday to $5.69 per share.

NBN Co’s chief customer officer John Simon is in 
charge of the project and said the 
government-funded project had to act quickly to 
stop TPG and other telcos from destroying its business case.

“If TPG can do it then why can’t six or seven 
other players do it?” he asked. “Then all of a 
sudden what you find is the more commercial or 
lucrative sectors of the market get picked off 
and you end up with a swiss cheese network.

[uh, yes, Malcolm, that's what you have now created.]

[snip - more at the link]


Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
jwhit at janwhitaker.com

Sooner or later, I hate to break it to you, 
you're gonna die, so how do you fill in the space 
between here and there? It's yours. Seize your space.
~Margaret Atwood, writer

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