ZDNet Twisted Wire – Will the NBN limit competition?

Further to the previous interview, Phil Dobbie interviewed myself (again) along with Geof Heydon (again) and Graeme Dollar for ZDNet’s latest Twisted Wire podcast on “Will the NBN limit competition?“.

Again Phil Dobbie brings his unique style and energy to the podcast format and in process uncovers a few new concerns for our rapidly evolving (or is it devolving, …. maybe just stagnating) telecommunications industry.

Well worth setting another twenty minutes aside to listen to.

Review of NBN Co Wholesale Bitstream Products engagement

In December 2009, NBN Co released a wholesale products consultation paper (NBN001) to the public as part of a planned and ongoing, open industry engagement process. In their own words, they noted that:

NBN Co’s role is to realise the Australian Government’s vision for the development of a next generation national broadband network. To do this successfully, we need to consult widely to ensure our plans for the network meet the current and future needs of our wholesale customers and the wider Australian community.

Interested parties were invited to return submissions back to NBN Co for review by mid February 2010. In the meantime, NBN Co held two open industry briefing sessions, one in Sydney and the other in Melbourne, the latter of which was recorded and published online. In late March 2010, NBN Co released their summary of the collective open industry feedback and published a subset of the responses onto their website. This post is my review and summary of those submissions, or at least the subset that engaged in an open fashion and allowed their submissions to be made available to the public, for open review, against NBN Co’s own summary review.

ZDNet Twisted Wire – What will the NBN look like?

I was recently interviewed by Phil Dobbie, along with Geof Heydon and Paul Brooks, for ZDNet’s Twisted Wire podcast on “What will the NBN look like?“. Apart from providing a very approachable summary of the terminology used when discussing the Australian NBN; Phil also highlights some of the areas of current debate, namely retail versus wholesale discussions and the confusion around local versus aggregated PoI locations.

Well worth setting twenty minutes aside to listen to.