Currently the NBN charges are regulated by the ACCC, and they’ve already signed a consent agreement around charges rising by less than the inflation rate (i.e. requiring internal efficiencies).
If you’re so opposed to these types of monopolies, perhaps you should be agitated for privately provided sewerage pipes and water mains? There’s good economic reasons that certain industries (typically that require physical distribution channels) are called “natural monopolies” – the potential market can’t grow bigger, but adding more suppliers just divides the existing market between them in ever smaller amounts. Most economists would agree (if not all economists) that natural monopolies should be run by the government, or regulated by the government. They aren’t free markets. Cheers Ken From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Saturday, 13 April 2013 6:32 PM To: [email protected]; ozDotNet Subject: Re: Office365 ? On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 6:17 PM, Greg Low (GregLow.com) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: While I’d love fibre to the house, project management is the one that’s my biggest concern. Clichés about inability to run chook raffles, even when given chooks, customers, wheels and comperes come to mind. Yup. Just wait until it is built. You will definitely get the call: "Hi, I am from NBN Co, the absolute government monopoly with zero competition. We're just ringing to let you know that we're dropping our charges after we've improved our internal inefficiencies in response to zero competition. We also dropping our outrageous CVC charges." Said no one ever. David.
