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=|is turning into an even bigger nightmare. Telstra can laugh it off. They can
=|wear the problems of walking away from their cable investment twice over, and
=|still have enough spare change to cover Frank Blount in the shower. Now the
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Question: can pay tv support the network, or do the numbers only work if
data/telephony are part of the package taken up by the customer?
Here's a hypothetical for you.
HFC goes belly up on data, so does pay tv. Nothing is ON the ugly cables
in the streets any more. Will local councils press for removal? Telstra
stops laughing quickly...as does Optus. Or will the telcos compete by
reducing prices on services to recapture the market?
JW
Jan Whitaker
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