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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by Wingman4l7 on Friday September 06, 2013 @02:09AM (#6338946)
Duopoly? Who, besides Telstra, owns pipes? Optus?
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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by jacques_chester on Friday September 06, 2013 @05:12AM (#6339413)
Looks like I've misread the current state of supply:

http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/net-capacity-down...

Looks more like an oligopoly of 5 companies. Australian bandwidth charges are well above international benchmarks.

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by Wingman4l7 on Sunday September 08, 2013 @10:12PM (#6351464)
> Australian bandwidth charges are well above international benchmarks.

Along with costs of mobile phone service, housing, electronics, appliances, beer, and damn near everything else.

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by pugz on Friday September 06, 2013 @02:13AM (#6338959)
There's PIPE Pacific Cable (PPC-1), independent of Telstra[1].

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Pacific_Cable

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