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Today the meeting at Eppalock near Bendigo was well attended by 30+
people and covered by WIN News. Not one person had any good to say
about Telstra or NBN. Those who have had experience with Active 8
satellite were far from pleased. Labor turned up the Lib's did not.
Without question from the meeting it can be stated that if the rest of
Australia has the same problems in rural areas as this one then it is
a very serious crisis for many people regarding internet and phone
communication. Debt collectors turning up when no accounts have been
received, business being interrupted for hours, MYGOV uncontactable,
and communication being out for days. These are NOT my words this is a
small indication from the meeting. Lisa Chester was there for one hour
on the matter it was not just a walk through. We now find out there
are 4 towers that have not been connected for 4 years. We Australia
have a very significant problem and we the people had better start
making some noise because this problem is NOT going away any time
soon. This without doubt is very serious issue.
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Today I attended an ex-Telecom / Telstra Engineers luncheon in Sydney.
The speaker there spoke very candidly about the enormous (and
extremely costly) inter-working problems between the NBN - Telstra -
and other Network installers.
No surprise to me at all (as I had worked for a couple of years with
Silcar / Theiss Services in 2005 - 2006, rebuilding the HFC Internet
infrastructure and about half of my time was inter-business
co-ordination that could have been totally eliminated if there was
only one telecomms infrastructure provider in Australia (and operating
as a Commission not a commercial for profit corporation).
John Stannard, your comments make immense sense and overwhelming
reason for the new Federal Government to immediately act for the
people that make the GDP (i.e. the inland) and physically split
Telstra / Optus etc of their fractionated infrastructure burdens so
they can maximise their profits retail reselling for their ASX
shareholders (nothing changes) and merge all the stripped telecomms
infrastructure to one sub-Dept. Commission (including the NBN fiasco)
- never to be privatised ever again.
It is rather obvious that the hard right Libs have Malcolm Turnbull's
arm wrenched behind his back right up to his neck - so he is virtually
mute... Alternately the Labs don't have a business person in their
ranks - so it is pretty hopeless... The Country Party is also right
wing and IMHO does not support Government Infrastructure.
--
David Boxall | "Cheer up" they said.
| "Things could be worse."
http://david.boxall.id.au | So I cheered up and,
| Sure enough, things got worse.
| --Murphy's musing
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