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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,660 ✭✭✭crawler


    Blaster99 wrote:
    But B&B is going to be our saviour with an open network architecture for the good of the nation. Or did I get this all wrong.

    Funny enough you might not be wrong...seriously...

    B&B will sell the retail arm and just keep the wholesale arm...they know that the retail arm will more or less have to buy from wholesale so they protect the revenue...

    they would then be genuinely be interested in all other carriers buying form them also - and in a sense they wouldnt care who bought what provided they are getting the revenue and sweating the asset...they also lose the overhead of the support issues etc..

    It's a clever idea I have to say....and may oddly be in the favour of the consumer and us other carriers...


  • Registered Users Posts: 4,290 ✭✭✭damien


    crawler wrote:
    It's a clever idea I have to say....and may oddly be in the favour of the consumer and us other carriers...

    Once they don't continue with the stupid idea that they'll oppose LLU.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 25,234 ✭✭✭✭Sponge Bob


    damien.m wrote:
    Once they don't continue with the stupid idea that they'll oppose LLU.

    They dont think its stupid, they are actually trying to replicate the situation in NZ as discussed in a recent thread on the fabulous Whirlpool board in OZ . There is some more stuff there too.

    B&B have identified _correctly_ that the Irish Regulator and Government are individually and collectively weak and that they could easily make the same arrangement here as in NZ with a bit of schmoozing and probably with a few envelopes and fact finding trips to Cairns, the pulsating heart of the Antipodean Telecoms industry as we all know, thrown in for luck .

    Here is what the Phil Nolans peer said to Noel Dempseys peer in NZ (one of them Comms bills lads was in the pipeline in NZ at the time ;)

    From The NZ Herald in December 2005
    The letter from Ms Gattung to then Communications Minister Paul Swain, dated May 5, 2004, talked about a potential 30 cent fall in Telecom's share price if "unbundling" was required, reminded Mr Swain that the health of the sharemarket was at stake because of Telecom's high weighting - its shares make up more than 20 per cent of the market, and said the Government superannuation fund was invested in Telecom.

    The letter was released under an official information request by Wellington newspaper The Dominion Post.

    At the time, a Government decision on whether to accept the recommendation of Telecommunications Commissioner Douglas Webb not to "unbundle" the local copper network was hanging in the balance.

    Communications Minister Paul Swain and the Economic Development Ministry backed unbundling and did not support Mr Webb's recommendation.

    But Mr Swain was rolled by the cabinet, which protected Telecom from unbundling. Other developed nations have forced the incumbent telecommunications company to open up its network to rivals to stimulate competition.

    None of this could ever happen in Ireland because we always learn from the mistakes of others.....and thats 100% Official lads because this Sponge sez it is right ! . By the way this other recent article below details the players in this NZ battle, it is all very reminiscent of somewhere close to home.

    From The NZ Herald in March 2006


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