[LINK] Absurd ACCC's destructive telco fantasy will only make things worse

[David]

On 9/05/2019 9:43 am, Kim Holburn wrote:

> https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/absurd-accc-s-destructive-telco-fantasy-will-only-make-things-worse-20190508-p51leo.html

> The commission says TPG has a commercial imperative and the capabilities to roll out its own mobile network and that the merger would preclude TPG’s entry, therefore substantially lessening competition.
> 
> The ACCC might wish for a different telecommunications landscape but that doesn’t mean it would emerge.

I think there's a basic conflict between the market-economics dream of many completely independent providers all busily competing with one-another, and the Australian reality.  Constructing independent physical networks in a country like Australia is just stupid.

David L.