Re: Lessons from the AU model

[Tom Vest <tvest () eyeconomics com>]

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