Spitballing, feel free to shoot it down...This isn't entirely a...

Spitballing, feel free to shoot it down...

This isn't entirely a bad thing, as it both entrenches some domestic competition, allows for industrial reform through regulation, and strengthens the domestic skillset.

1) NBNCo's satellite can handle intranational backhaul traffic for telco needs.
NWT's satellites can deal with international market demand, and Australia-overseas comms.
NBNCo delivering international satellite services would be beyond its regulated mandate.

2) NWT, while operating its own Ka-band, has some direct domestic competition for the industry personnel familiar with Ka-band.
Service quality for Australian NWT clients is ideally kept in line with or superior to NBNCo, and personnel are at minimum, given an opportunity to be kept locally (assuming pay parity with other international competitors).

Secondary benefit: International NWT business indirectly benefits from the domestic service improvement so long as NWT management can translate meeting competitive domestic service expecttaions into international-best service delivery.




PS: As an IT Professional, the Liberal's FTTN 'NBN' plan is abysmal, no plan at all, a stopgap baindaid to a problem that shouldn't exist and can be easy removed entirely, and also fails to deliver in significant parts.