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Originally Posted by wasyoungonce
Totally agree.... Telstra & Murdoch are major Foxtel shareholders, FTTH will allow competing infrastructure and possibly new business to take place......which is why the Murdoch is actively campaigning against the government particularly wrt NBN and Telstra halted RIM tophat rollout. They want to keep their nice juicy monopoly while we fiddle on pair-gain and will never get better than ADSL1.  |
Hi Brendan,
This article in today's Sydney Morning Herald may interest you -
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/governm...903-hv1m1.html
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Originally Posted by Lucy Battersby, Sydney Morning Herald
Australia's largest cities may receive no broadband upgrade until 2017 under the Coalition's current NBN policy, because households already have access to cable networks installed in the 1990s.
Cabled suburbs have a "pretty good service now", according to the opposition's communications spokesman, Malcolm Turnbull, and would be a lower priority than suburbs without any cable access.
The cables were installed to carry pay TV services but have since also provided broadband connections.
Hybrid fibre-coaxial [HFC] cable networks installed by Telstra to deliver Foxtel, Optus and some smaller operators cover most of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, parts of inner Darwin, Perth, Adelaide and the Gold Coast, and regional towns of Geelong, Mildura and Ballarat in Victoria.
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With cable networks already capable of delivering broadband speeds in the Coalition's target of 50 megabits per second [Mbps], it is unknown if these suburbs would ever receive an upgrade under a Coalition government.
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Both Optus and Telstra have signed commercial agreements with NBN Co to decommission their cable for a fee, but Telstra's deal allows it to keep the cable active for Foxtel transmission. These contracts must be renegotiated if a Coalition government wants to keep the networks alive.
"The fact that both operators are keen to close down their networks indicates that they most certainly don't see these networks as ideal infrastructure for the future," telecommunications analyst Paul Budde said.
Upgrading the cable and changing regulations so all carriers could sell services would "require long [financial] negotiations and lengthy regulatory processes", he added.
"If it was all that easy that would have been done 10 years ago."
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