On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 06:49:57PM +1000, Frank O'Connor wrote: > 9. Has little in the way of vision or imagination ... what we'll be > getting is pretty much the same as we've got now, but some people will > have up to twice the speed the currently get.
this is a major point that is mostly ignored. it has been pointed out several times that Liberal's version of NBN is about 70% of the cost of Labor's NBN for (being generous) about 5% of the performance. what hasn't been noticed is that it's 70% of the cost of Labor's NBN to get something that's about the same as what we have now. it's throwing money away for little or no benefit. Liberal's NBN isn't worth *anything*, but they want to waste $29 billion or so on it. and that $29B does not include replacing the aging and degraded copper in the ground so that customers can actually get something like the 25-50Mbps promised. Most of those lines can't do full-speed ADSL1 or ADSL2 now, they're certainly not going to be good enough for VDSL. it's not just lack of vision or even technical incompetence - it's an outright lie. they know it can't work, there's no way they could possibly not know that. it's Liberal policy because it's the policy that Murdoch wants them to have. and it will, no doubt, be sold at a massive loss to Murdoch in a few years time....my prediction: at best, 5-10% of the build cost - and the timing will be only a few years early for it to be a very generous 90th birthday present from the australian people to our very own evil overlord of the fourth estate. craig (from now on, i'm going to try never to refer to it as Liberal's NBN or Turnbull's NBN - the correct name is Murdoch's NBN) -- craig sanders <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
