Alan Parkington <parkingtona@team.telstra.com> wrote:

> From
> http://www.computerworld.com.au/inde...8;fp;4;fpid;18

> Telecommunications analyst Paul Budde released a report today which predicts telecoms market growth will drop to 4.1
> per cent by 2008 and 3.4 per cent by 2009.

Hardly surprising that the rate of growth drops off with so many on broadband already.

In fact it would be a hell of a lot more surprising if it didnt.

> The fall follows a fairly buoyant period with the overall telecoms market growing 5.2 per cent to $36.6 billion in the
> 12 months to June, 2007.

So nothing to start crying about.

> Budde said the market will subside over the next two years

Wota terminal fuckwit. Wouldnt now what a real subside was if it bit it on its lard arse.

> as Telstra is forced to begin a period of transformation and reationalisation.

By the fact that so many who use the net much have boardband already.

> But in 2007, he said Telstra maintained its stranglehold on the wholesale market with revenues of just under $3
> billion in 2007, which constitutes more than 70 per cent of the $4.2 billion wholesale market.

So what the fuck are those fuckwit yanks whining about ?

> The total second tier market (including wholesale revenues) grew at around 7.9 per cent in 2007 to $9.2 billion

Hardy surprising that telstra gets to lose some market share, fuckwit.

> and Budde expects the growth rate to drop slightly to around six per cent in 2008 and then maintain this level moving
> into 2009.

> According to the report, Telstra's Retail broadband subscribers
> jumped 60 per cent to 2.4 million, and market share increased from 45 to 47 per cent. In fact, retail broadband for
> the first time exceeded the dollar decline in PSTN revenues.

So what the fuck are those fuckwit yanks whining about ?

> Budde said Optus is starting to feel the pinch of a mobile market that has almost reached saturation point with local
> access revenue declining.

Yep, caps have to affect the total revenue sometime, fuckwit.

> "After some very tough years the second tier market is finally turning the corner, although still struggling.

Mindless silly stuff.

> Regulations have finally started to fall in place providing the market with an economically viable wholesale
> platform," he said.

It aint the regulations that have done that, its the enthusiastic
adoption of the technology thats done that, fuckwit.

> " With good wholesale prices in place, by late 2007 the industry has increased the number of lines which they now
> operate independently from Telstra."

It would be a hell of a lot more surprising if they didnt, fuckwit.