[101921] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lessons from the AU model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Newton)
Sun Jan 20 20:07:08 2008
Cc: Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>, Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@dtc.umn.edu>,
nanog@merit.edu
From: Mark Newton <newton@internode.com.au>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
In-Reply-To: <4793E814.7090102@psg.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:32:11 +1030
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 21/01/2008, at 11:02 AM, Randy Bush wrote:
> and pricing in australia had nothing to do with a monopilist telco
> with a rapacious plan highly well articulated and sold to the govt
> by an arch-capitalist with a silver tongue?
It used to, but not so much now.
The access tail price is still dominated by Telstra's macinations, but
national SDH capacity is relatively competitive these days, and Telstra
are almost completely uninvolved in transpacific pricing.
Transpacific pricing is more driven by the duopoly effects of AJC and
Southern Cross. Will be interesting to see how PPC-1 shakes the market
up next year. We're looking forward to it.
- mark
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