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like the rest of the developed world, wireless networks will subsume your fixed line services.

http://abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Products/8153.0~December...

You sure about that? Plus, how are you going to transmit 1 Gbps with an acceptable level of contention, with a very very thin wall or two in the way over any distance greater than let's say a hundred metres?

Plus, this deregulation that you speak of, the national telco was being privatised starting in 1997, and deregulation happened before that even. Broadband ISPs have been around forever, and their DSLAMs for more than a decade too.

Your fixed line services, at the national level, are still relatively small.

In some areas, we've got three networks running to the same premises. Fixed line services are near enough fully built out and have been forever.

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