Lessons from the AU model
Frank Bulk
frnkblk at iname.com
Mon Jan 21 21:01:58 UTC 2008
Is this story relevant?
"Undersea cable to slash Aust broadband costs"
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10486793
They seem have the sales angle all locked up.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nanog at merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog at merit.edu] On Behalf Of
Matthew Moyle-Croft
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008 8:54 PM
To: Geoff Huston
Cc: Randy Bush; Andy Davidson; Andrew Odlyzko; nanog at merit.edu
Subject: Re: Lessons from the AU model
>
> Southern Cross cost some US $1B to construct about a decade ago
RFS was Nov 2001. They full paid the debt from a US$1.3B cost of
construction in Oct 2005.
(see
http://www.southerncrosscables.com/public/News/newsdetail.cfm?StoryID=14)
So, they're making some VERY decent money out of the duopoly with AJC.
Hence why Telstra's building their OWN cable to Hawaii. It's cheaper
to build than buy!
MMC
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