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Submitted by natecochrane
natecochrane writes "The CEO of Australia's No.2 telco, Optus, has called for a "baby Bell" solution to handle what he says is a growing threat to competition in the emerging $43 billion Australian national fibre-broadband network. Paul O'Sullivan says that only by breaking up the network architect NBN Co and tendering out its services, overseen by an independent board (much like Australia's Reserve Bank the Fed), can competition be preserved. And he had a few choice words to say about Australia's "No.2" ISP, iiNet: "If you take into account we operate a cable network and not ADSL [primarily] we’re still significantly larger than iiNet.""
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  • The NBN is starting to look like it is in dire trouble. Majority of the population will have access to fibre, but the rural citizens get stuck with a mobile data solution based on the infrastructure that Telstra is replacing with 4G/LTE. It is far from economical to fibre up a country bigger than the US with only a fraction of the population. But with Telstra taking the next step i see a big influx of users jumping on the 40mbps network that is supposed to be rolled out in Capital cities by the end of the y

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