[101939] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lessons from the AU model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Vest)
Sun Jan 20 22:59:25 2008
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0801202130020.6555@clifden.donelan.com>
Cc: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>, Andy Davidson <andy@nosignal.org>,
Andrew Odlyzko <odlyzko@dtc.umn.edu>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Tom Vest <tvest@eyeconomics.com>
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2008 22:51:55 -0500
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Jan 20, 2008, at 9:36 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, 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?
>
> And Japan had the arch-capitalist with a silver tongue, Masayoshi Son,
> to whack the NTT monopilist telco(s) broadband policy into action.
>
> Let's hear it for the arch-capitalists with silver tongues.
But the equivalence you seem to be suggesting in fact demonstrates
the exact opposite.
Which of the A-Cs leveraged (gov-driven) facilities bottleneck
relief, and which one has tried to prevent/resist such relief?
Anyone care to compare relative price/service differences between AU
and JP -- or if that seems too iffy, to compare the magnitude of
within-country change in service price/quality over the last 5-6 years?
Let's "hear it" for some of them. Let's "give it" to some of the others.
TV
