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To: Peter Ecclesine who wrote (30957)	8/13/2009 12:37:30 PM
From: Frank A. Coluccio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 46821

Well that's just dandy. Telstra's willing to "sell" its public r-o-w support structures to the cause, charging only a piddly $8Billion in the process. Hm. "The report -- from analysts led by Christian Guerra, Tristan Joll and Adam Alexander - also argued that dominant telco Telstra is likely to sell $12 billion of its network assets into the NBN, making the project faster and cheaper for the Government to build. It said Telstra was most likely to sell "passive" physical assets, such as ducts, pits and pipes, to NBNCo for a discounted $8 billion, below Goldman's $12 billion valuation, but would keep its copper network." -- Generally, my faith in reports such as this one has taken a steep nosedive, below the nadir reached by Salomon's and MS's whatstheirnames during the bubble. Everyone skews. Nothing comes out straight. It's almost as though there were invisible lines connecting parts of a larger cabal. Of course, the communities that will suffer most, that is, those that will likely wait the longest to come in on the tail end of the projections shown above, are the ones that can least afford to wait at all. That said, can anyone provide a better justification for autonomous, local control of community broadband? The real kicker I've been considering is whether these national broadband frameworks will result in new stumbling blocks to local community builds, in place of the regulatory and incumbent oppositions that have existed before. Perhaps not explicitly, but surely in a tacit way, since there would be too many disincentives for local communities to take matters into their own hands, since doing so would be considered "out of program", hence unqualified for funding. Vouchers, anyone? ------