FTTH Council withdraws criticisms of NBN Co strategy

Stuart Corner
Thursday, 01 April 2010 16:12

IT Industry - Strategy

The FTTH Council Asia Pacific has been left with a large amount of egg on its face after it made, and subsequently withdrew, a critical submission to an NBN Co consultation paper that it had failed to get approved by key vendor members.

The submission cited representatives of a number of major vendors and FTTH Council members - including ADC Krone, Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson - as "reviewers". However two of these (Alcatel-Lucent and Ericsson) have told iTWire that they were not in fact given the opportunity to review the submission. ADC Krone at not responded at the time of writing; neither had the council's secretary.

The submission was one of a number received by NBN Co http://www.nbnco.com.au/publications-and-announcements/publications/doc/wholesale-bitstream-products-response-to-industry-submissions in response to its December 2009 consultation paper that outlined the design elements of its FTTH network and proposed wholesale bitstream products.

A list of all submissions, and full versions of public ones has been posted on the NBN Co web site along with NBN Co's response http://www.nbnco.com.au/content/upload/files/Response_to_Industry_Submissions/NBN_Co_response_to_consultation_submissions.pdf

The FTTH Council initially replaced its submission with another version that appeared identical to the first except that it omitted the name of Michael Stolpen director broadband networks, Ericsson Market Unit South East Asia, Singapore from the list of reviewers.

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