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Henry in The Australian Friday 26 August 2011:
"When Ralph Willis announced his telecommunications reforms in 1989, he delivered immediate price reductions and a price cap under which prices would fall steadily in real terms. Willis's reforms ushered in a long period of productivity increases that allowed price declines up to the present day."
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The gouge is on for NBN users
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We'll pay dearly for this NBN folly
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Henry comments on the NBN deal in his op-ed for The Australian this week (28 June 2010):
EIGHTEEN months ago, Telstra proposed risking $10 billion of its shareholders' money building a high-speed broadband network. After that bid fell over, the government, dizzy with its success in the polls, decided to build a fibre network of its own. Why? Because, Kevin Rudd said at the time, the alternative would have been to pay Telstra "billions of dollars in compensation".
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How the NBN Implementation Study stacks up
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Henry comments in CommsDay (10 May 2010) on the McKinsey-KPMG Implementation Study of the NBN.
"The Implementation Study is clearly a serious piece of work that provides a wealth of information and analysis relevant to an assessment of the NBN proposal. By and large, the Study is of high quality. However, its results are based on strong, often not well justified, assumptions, there are some seeming errors in the analysis...."
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Broadband needs big, fat open book
Henry comments in The Australian (26 Mar 2010) on the latest developments in the national broadband network saga. Click here to read the full article or on the link below to download the pdf.
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Setting access prices:A critique of the ACCC’s approach in telecommunications
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An Optimal Policy Framework for a New Broadband Network
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While there are at least seven full facility-based broadband competitors, competitive facility-based fixed line investments appear to be declining in favour of use of Telstra’s network. It also appears that no carrier is presently willing to make significant fixed broadband investments without substantial regulatory commitments and protections relative to those currently available.
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