"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Mr.T <MrT@home> wrote
>> Vote out Brendan Nelson <vote@out.com> wrote
>
>>> The only company that can deliver FTTH (Fibre to the Home) is Optus
>>> only if bloody Telstra backed protesters didn't get in the way in the
>>> late
>>> 1990's it could of been done already in the captial cities at least.
>
>> Both companies provide FTTH or FTTN in most parts of Melbourne and Sydney
>> already.
>
> Nope, not in the sense that Telstra is proposing FTTN.
>
>> Then they realised the take up rate for overpriced cable TV was
>> less than expected and both companies stopped their roll outs.
>
> Wrong again. Optarse lost the content war to foxtel and THAT was the
> reason the rollout stopped.
>
> Telstra only did it because Optarse did it.

Nope. OP was correct, they both stopped because of money and the fact that
it was costing too much