Hi Frank - There's an invigorating debate happening here; perhaps a suitable response can be made when there's more time.
"Food for thought" indeed. Are we waiting for empires to fall, just to install Big Fat Pipes? We've waited more than a decade, in which time the empires have just grown bigger, stronger, and no less predatory.
In the meantime, we've seen Sweden, Japan, and South Korea rationalize their telecomms structure, and move ahead. Now Australia looks ready to join them.
And what of the laws that support these players, their archaic infrastructure, and rates? Will they just magically disappear, too? Or will they stay on the books, playing havoc with the future?
Is it not true that the conceptual basis of telecomms law and regulation is dated? That the underlying concepts no longer adequately encompass the technology and express its potential?
Frankston and Isenberg have been preaching for years; their message has found a receptive and proactive audience in other jurisdictions.
But not here, where it all started. We have advocates, but no action. We can't do it? It's beyond our capability to engage the mechanisms of competition and the profit motive to provide what others have? We must wait for who knows how long, for the landscape and the law to erode?
I don't buy that.
Jim |
