Re:ISP's in Australia (Score 1)

Actually three cities I'm on BPA in Brisbane. Optus will be offering competion (with @homes help) real soon (Though the service has been in this vapourous state for some time now).

Australians are hard to connect, in fact competition does not help in this case. The Austrailian market is too small and widely dispersed. Duplication of services is driving the price up in marginal markets like broadband. As I understand it Optus has given up rolling out cable becuase It belives the market is not there in Australia.

There are not enough consumers for two cable networks, let alone more.

In fact it's becuase of the competition that we don't have aDSL and the like. Remember Telsra was owned by the public, much of its enormous profits were poured back into the network. Telstras network plans were pretty schweet, they were abandoned when Optus came along.

I'm not for monopolies, but competition does not always make sense, the market needs to be big enough to support it.

---Did someone say Turnip?

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