On 12 July 2010 21:41, .net noobie <dotnetnoo...@gmail.com> wrote: > "Or building an NBN" > > I was under the impression that we were building the 40+ billion NBN to have > "TWO" networks to increase/create competition
Er, since when would that increase competition? Do we have two sets of roads, two sets of electricity *distribution* systems? > > anyway now we have the government (Conroy) stick the boots into Telstra, > make them break up, and if they don't do it the way Conroy want's they will > just take (at a very low unfair price) the parts they need to make the new > NBN Is much of Telstra's 'last mile' fibre? I'm thinking it isn't, so there's not much of what Telstra has that the NBN would want > > Conroy is now telling us that this is going to save us lots of money, > but.... now we will have a single network as before, just the government > will own it, not Telstra Telstra never should have been allowed to own both pieces. > > In Tasmania the network prices are out, you can buy a 25 MB/Sec connection > for $99 a month or you can have ADSL2+ 24 MB/sec for maybe $29 a month or > $50 for more bandwidth than most heavy use families will chew in a month You'd be surprised. A friend was grousing that his kids had used > 20g in a week (school holidays) and put him into 'shaped' territory. The higher the speed, the more this is going to happen. > > But the thing that gets me more then the pricing, is the Fact that now we > are still only going to have 1 major network, just like before, but not > privately owned, but owned by the Government, the justification of the 40 > billion plus NBN (after they failed to raise 5 billion from the private > sector, then 5 days later announced the 40 plus billion plan) was to have 2 > networks for competition in the market place, to give the little guys in the > game a better chance to get a good deal, but this reason/jusification for > kicking Telstra's teeth in seems to have gone by the wayside, but no one in > the media seems to remember/mention it. What was the fact in all of that? -- Meski "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. Sure, you'll get it, but it's going to be rough" - Adam Hills
