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With the Australian government's multi-technology model for the National Broadband Network (NBN) set in stone, competitors to dominant carrier Telstra are concerned that proposed transition arrangements give the incumbent too much power while crimping the reach of regulator the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission. …

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  1. mr. deadlift
    Mushroom

    MTM?

    more like FTF

    fukt totally fukt.

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  2. Tim Roberts 1

    Murdoch again?

    This snippet says it all "...Telstra's relationship with Foxtel...."

    Let me be the first to say "Fuck you Murdoch and fuck you Telstra"

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  3. Abel Adamski

    How many realise Telstra/Foxtel retain the Pay TV component of the HFC and Telstra retains some fibres in the Fibre cables to service their business customers (HFC is not suited to business).

    NBN will Nominally "own" the HFC and will be responsible for upgrading, operating, maintaining and extending it (currently only covers 30% of premises in footprint), all at no cost to Telstra/Foxtel.

    Under the FTTP NBN, Telstra/Foxtel kept their Pay TV HFC and paid for maintenance and operation.

    Fttn will be only very average for Video streaming, The Monopoly is maintained and extended at taxpayer expense

    Worth $Billions to Rupert and News Ltd.

    Also NBN is now liable for and will pay Telstra to remediate the problematic pits and ducts that were previously Telstra's responsibilty.

    A true Carpetbagger scam

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    1. mathew42
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      FAIL

      > Under the FTTP NBN, Telstra/Foxtel kept their Pay TV HFC and paid for maintenance and operation.

      I wasn't aware of this. Do you have a reference for this?

      > Fttn will be only very average for Video streaming

      25Mbps should be adequate for video streaming, especially at the quotas currently available.

      > The Monopoly is maintained and extended at taxpayer expense

      Sport is the #1 reason for PayTV profits and it is unlikely those licensing deals will change in a hurry.

      If the amount of criticism levelled at the Coalition NBN was levelled at Labor's disaster then it might not have over promised (1 Gbps for all) and under delivered by millions of connections.

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