a) Australia is much larger than the UK, and with much lower population density. So the sunk cost per person is much higher here
b) Australian telcos have to pay overseas peers for data, because more data originates overseas than in Aus. Until that pricing scheme changes, there will never be true "unlimited" plans in Aus From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Liedig Sent: Monday, 12 July 2010 8:02 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: [OT] Friday - Conway (or.. Labor govt) once againdelaysInternet Filter Pricing is out of control. I'm living in the UK at the moment and I pay £7.50 ($13) for 8 meg download, no cap. Prior to leaving I was paying $49 for half that speed and 50GB cap. Unbelievable that Aussies still have to pay so much more than the rest of the world. On 12 July 2010 12:41, .net noobie <dotnetnoo...@gmail.com<mailto:dotnetnoo...@gmail.com>> wrote: "Or building an NBN" I was under the impression that we were building the 40+ billion NBN to have "TWO" networks to increase/create competition anyway now we have the government (Conroy) stick the boots into Telstra, make them break up, and if they don't do it the way Conroy want's they will just take (at a very low unfair price) the parts they need to make the new NBN Conroy is now telling us that this is going to save us lots of money, but.... now we will have a single network as before, just the government will own it, not Telstra In Tasmania the network prices are out, you can buy a 25 MB/Sec connection for $99 a month or you can have ADSL2+ 24 MB/sec for maybe $29 a month or $50 for more bandwidth than most heavy use families will chew in a month But the thing that gets me more then the pricing, is the Fact that now we are still only going to have 1 major network, just like before, but not privately owned, but owned by the Government, the justification of the 40 billion plus NBN (after they failed to raise 5 billion from the private sector, then 5 days later announced the 40 plus billion plan) was to have 2 networks for competition in the market place, to give the little guys in the game a better chance to get a good deal, but this reason/jusification for kicking Telstra's teeth in seems to have gone by the wayside, but no one in the media seems to remember/mention it. On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 5:59 PM, David Connors <da...@codify.com<mailto:da...@codify.com>> wrote: On 12 July 2010 17:28, Ken Schaefer <k...@adopenstatic.com<mailto:k...@adopenstatic.com>> wrote: But saying "don't buy from the Chinese" is just self-defeating. Then the Chinese shouldn't buy our coal. Or Americans shouldn't buy Dr Low's consulting services etc. No one will buy anything from anyone overseas. And why limit it to countries: people in NSW shouldn't buy things from Queensland, and Sydney-siders shouldn't buy things from Dubbo, and so on. I think Greg was referring to the annoying spin on the stimulus spend. -- David Connors | da...@codify.com<mailto:da...@codify.com> | www.codify.com<http://www.codify.com/> Software Engineer Codify Pty Ltd Phone: +61 (7) 3210 6268 | Facsimile: +61 (7) 3210 6269 | Mobile: +61 417 189 363 V-Card: https://www.codify.com/cards/davidconnors Address Info: https://www.codify.com/contact
