[101937] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lessons from the AU model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matthew Moyle-Croft)
Sun Jan 20 22:33:06 2008
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:23:36 +1030
From: Matthew Moyle-Croft <mmc@internode.com.au>
To: Geoff Huston <gih@apnic.net>
CC: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>,
Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@dtc.umn.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <4794015C.2010509@apnic.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
>
> Southern Cross cost some US $1B to construct about a decade ago
RFS was Nov 2001. They full paid the debt from a US$1.3B cost of
construction in Oct 2005.
(see
http://www.southerncrosscables.com/public/News/newsdetail.cfm?StoryID=14)
So, they're making some VERY decent money out of the duopoly with AJC.
Hence why Telstra's building their OWN cable to Hawaii. It's cheaper
to build than buy!
MMC
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