The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
In addition to user and service benefits, Frost &
Sullivan notes that the NBN will bring important changes to the
Australian telecommunications service provider landscape, suggesting
that once the network becomes fully operational, telcos such as Optus,
AAPT and Primus will be able to “compete on a level playing field
against Telstra's retail division without needing to purchase wholesale
access from the incumbent.”
Harpur makes the point that, under the NBN plan,
optical fibre will run in parallel with Telstra's copper network, and
that control of the copper network to residential premises has
historically been a key factor in enabling Telstra to maintain its
dominance of the local access network.
“With the building of a parallel fibre NBN network directly to homes
and businesses, Telstra's dominance of this section of the network will
no doubt be eventually threatened,” Harpur says. “However, it is likely
to take the government at least eight years to get its network fully
operational, assuring Telstra of significant breathing space before it
has to compete with other telcos for wholesale access.”
Frost & Sullivan's report includes consideration of a possible
restructure of Telstra, as recently mooted in a government discussion
paper.
However, the firm says that, while the government has raised the
possibility of going down this path in the past, it notes that this
time, it seems to have much more conviction behind its proposal, and
“ensuring some form of separation of Telstra's divisions is in line
with its vision of a new network which gives equal access to all
players on wholesale pricing levels.”
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