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

[Kim Holburn]

Our main problem is population density.  Our urban density is similar to many other countries but our rural population density is one of the lowest in the world.  To bring connectivity to the outback or the folded rural coasts is a real problem.  Currently the government pays companies to fix "black spots".  

We have this stupid duplication of the cellphone network.  We have sold chunks of all that local shared spectrum to different companies.  The government makes a lot of money privatising our spectrum.  

If we mandated the cell network infrastructure had to interoperate as a single cell network, built by different companies but used by all.  We would be able to have twice the coverage we have now.

Surely there is some way to do this.

> On 2019/May/09, at 11:22 am, David <dlochrin at key.net.au> wrote:
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> On 9/05/2019 9:43 am, Kim Holburn wrote:
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>> https://www.smh.com.au/business/companies/absurd-accc-s-destructive-telco-fantasy-will-only-make-things-worse-20190508-p51leo.html
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>> 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.

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