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Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2004 20:23:55 +1000
From: Dale Clapperton
To: Ozisp, isp-australia
Message-Id: <000701c3d11a$8ebcd240$0a03a8c0@blackbird.net.au>
Subject: [Oz-ISP] Ziggy: we will CRUSH you!!! (paraphrased)
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I guess Ziggy isn't sadisfied with having 65 of the telco market in Australia
and sole control of the local loop, having only 65% is "not acceptable" and he
wants to increase it.  Will he accomplish this by??

1) Predatory pricing;
2) Anti-compeditive policies;
3) Strategic incompetence;
4) Dirty tricks; or
5) All of the above.

My money is on #5.

http://news.com.au/common/story_page/0,4057,8304129%255E15306,00.html
[...]
In August, following its lowest annual profit result in five years - thanks
largely to a $US965 million writedown on its Reach cable joint venture in
Asia - Telstra chief executive Ziggy Switkowski signalled a fightback.

He said the company's slide to 65 per cent market share from a monopoly in 1990
was no longer acceptable and that the telco should be able to hold share and
perhaps even recover some ground.
[...]

$cynicism++

Dale

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