[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 Cos response to TPG Telecoms 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. TPGs share price fell 26¢ on Tuesday to $5.69 per share. NBN Cos 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 cant 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 [email protected] 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 _ __________________ _ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
