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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by elithrar on Friday September 06, 2013 @02:30AM (#6339005)
The issue there is that it is extremely difficult for a private organisation without existing cable assets to deploy a new fibre network.

Land access, easement issues, pit access/location/sharing and so on are very difficult problems with no single solution.

Private industry wouldn't be able to take the risk.

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Re:Why the NBN needs to go the full way by Wingman4l7 on Friday September 06, 2013 @04:05AM (#6339239)
Not to mention that the second the big telcos (read: Telstra) got wind of someone trying to compete, they'd use regulatory capture and other dirty tricks to ensure that the newcomer had a snowball's chance in hell of succeeding.
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