-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On 5/08/2015 12:49 PM, zlinw@mcmedia.com.au wrote:
You appear not have understood what Mark was saying, in most rural Australia one simply has no choice, you have Telstra or nothing. As far as I am concerned these other Telco's you are defending are as guilty of gouging the public as Telstra, as they will ____ONLY____ provide services where they can get a large return on as small an outlay as possible. Telstra's performance is poor, but at last its there you mostly cannot get support from anyone else.
That is absolutely not true. There are lots of reasons why providers cannot put equipment in to Telstra owned exchanges; even the city ones are expensive to do so. Besides getting equipment in to exchanges, some of which have been artificially classified as "full" ... you need to have bandwidth back to the POP of the ISP. As Telstra owns a lot of that back haul, it is prohibitively expensive to provide services. Even in city areas, Telstra takes a huge chunk of the fees paid for TW services; there is very, very little margin for the ISP when using TW and there is huge risk as Telstra charges very expensive back haul costs, even in cities. So, if an ISP is able to use their own infrastructure as much as possible, then it is the only way they can provide services at the right cost. Simple fact, the less Telstra is involved the cheaper the solution will be, period. I fully accept that remote locations are difficult for all providers, including even Telstra; that is why we have CSO (community service obligations). Telstra is still a huge winner and they really don't deserve to win as much as they do at the expense of a fair and competitive environment.
I am somewhat luckier than Mark as my rural house is just below a hill that has both Telstra and another carriers (Optus) mobile towers on it so I can get a half decent although from in town standards very expensive fast internet (I use Virgin), even then its NOT reliable. The nearest town around 5 kilometres away has both ASDL and fixed radio, neither of these will reach me. NBN will not be availible at my location for at least another couple of years and then it will be via satelite. Note: I am not complaining just making a point. services will _____ALWAYS______ be poorer in rural areas, something most town and city folk do not always understand, one lives in such an area to get a quite life.
There are some areas where the NBN was fast tracked, Armadale for instance. The best I'm going to see with the NBN is via cable, not via fibre; that will limit my speeds, but that is not new to me. VDSL will be good for some, but FTTN is the only real solution that isn't a waste of money and resources and it will be far cheaper to maintain once it is in place -- unfortunately this LNP government is preferring to cost the tax payer much, much more given their waste to date and waste in the future (particularly with running costs of the bad network) . Telstra will be very happy to be rid of their /responsibility/ for copper and they have been paid handsomely for that benefit too.
Lindsay
You once had your own WISP .... didn't you? Times have changed, but some challenges, like being able to compete with Telstra, will remain, perhaps forever in at least IT terms if not in human life terms. A. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iF4EAREIAAYFAlXB1uUACgkQqBZry7fv4vsn+wEAgmkTfwcn2BglYLvr6fSP3rbv wTwg2Kpn4yo7k3BBWcgBALxaQiWNTHeMwjzY4BPiQ/RtPia/05/nbdiJsqFiw771 =Hvr3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----