[plug] ADSL plans

[Bernd Felsche]

Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> writes:
>Chris Caston wrote:

>> It *may* well be easier to *convince* WPC to insulate all the cables
>> that it would be to convince Telstra to allow ADSL. Just a guess.\

>True. On the other hand, if Western Power was to go and insulate all the 
>cables (presuming such a procedure is feasible; something of which I'm 
>not convinced), they'd have to seriously consider running fibre at the 
>same time ;-)

>Telstra is the only company that believes that Telstra should control 
>all the infrastructure. Unfortunately, building parallel infrastructure 

Only the PMG infrastructure. :-)

>is expensive and often unprofitable.

Which is why _infrastructure_ should be owned by the taxpayers; and
maybe operated by private companies by leasing access to the
infrastructure.
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