And: 3. Handing over ownership of the copper and HFC where NBN wanted to use them.
At least that’s how every news story I’ve read described the agreements: https://www.itnews.com.au/news/telstra-hands-over-copper-hfc-in-new-11bn-nbn-deal-398793 https://www.arnnet.com.au/article/562467/nbn-co-buy-telstra-optus-cables/ etc. From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of David Connors Sent: Friday, 5 January 2018 2:33 PM To: ozDotNet <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [OT] Internet use on 4G LTE On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 at 12:03 Ken Schaefer <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: If so, it seems very much like compensation for the physical infrastructure. The Telstra and Optus could have kept their user base (and associated value derived from that) on the new physical platform. For Telstra it was compensation for: 1. Losing all wholesale revenue. 2. Providing a commitment to churn all of its customers to NBN. Not that they had any choice in the matter given that Conroy had a gun to Telstra's head saying he would prohibit them from bidding on any further spectrum of they didn't sign a definitive agreement. David.
