It isn't yet clear which road Australian regulators have in mind for that country's contestants. An inter-modal framework such as that used in the United States is one option. So is the intra-modal, robust wholesale access model prevalent in Western Europe. In Australia, it would be Telstra that builds the fiber-to-home network that other competitors would have wholesale access to.
At some point, the log jam has to be broken or consumers and businesses in Australia are not going to have access to the bandwidth they are going to need. Up to this point Telstra has been able to rely on wireless and new Internet access services to offset declines in voice revenue. But nobody really thinks that can go on forever.
Neighbor New Zealand already has opted for an "operational separation" regime that separates wholesale network operations from retail sales operations for all players in the market that want to take advantage of the wholesale access network.
Sunday, January 6, 2008
Which Road for Australia?
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Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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