[101961] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Lessons from the AU model
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Mon Jan 21 16:11:34 2008
Reply-To: <frnkblk@iname.com>
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Matthew Moyle-Croft'" <mmc@internode.com.au>,
"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: <47940930.9090306@internode.com.au>
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:01:58 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Is this story relevant?
"Undersea cable to slash Aust broadband costs"
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10486793
They seem have the sales angle all locked up.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Matthew Moyle-Croft
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:54 PM
To: Geoff Huston
Cc: Randy Bush; Andy Davidson; Andrew Odlyzko; nanog@merit.edu
Subject: Re: Lessons from the AU model
>
> 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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