On 13/05/2017 8:34 AM, Frank O'Connor wrote:
...
What we’ve got now - at a probably non-redeeemable cost of $60 billion - is an
obsolete outmoded network that will redeem nowhere near its build cost when
offered for private shareholding, let alone make a profit, with massive ongoing
fixed costs (for power, maintenance and repair) and which has to be redone to
the original fibre to the home specifications to even meet basic network needs
and expectations even before it is ‘finished’. A massive White Elephant with
political and penny pinching (read 'Henry Ergas approved') technical
limitations that renders it unfit for purpose long before it is complete.
...
I've heard it said that, once we've built this mess, cleaned up the
mess, then built what we need, Australia will have gone through the
better part of $200 billion and missed decades of opportunities. To me,
nothing illustrates the insane bastardy of the Coalition like the change
from ring to star topology. That can't be remedied without essentially
digging up what's been done and starting from scratch.
As far as privatising the NBN; if they insist on repeating the blunder
they made with the copper network, then I'll seriously consider oiling
up the Kalashnikov. >:(
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| it's fake government.
http://david.boxall.id.au | --Ross Gittins
Sydney Morning Herald 27 March 2017
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