On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:14 AM, Tony Wright <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now to my position – lest you think me some impractical academic. In my BT > life I was employed as: > > ** > > 1) A digger of trenches**** > > 2) An installer of poles, cables, telephones PBXs, exchanges**** > > 3) A maintainer of PBXs, switches, repeater and radio stations**** > > 4) A network designer and planner**** > > 5) A research engineer**** > > 6) A software writer**** > > 7) A designer of test equipment**** > > 8) Systems and networks designer**** > > 9) Head of Group a then Head of Section and then Head of Division for > Transmission Systems**** > > 10) Head of Research and then CTO**** > > And since leaving BT life and experience has been even faster and even > broader… > Two pages of bloviating from an ex-Telco hack that misses the point. Since 2009, BT has passed 16 million premises with FTTx. Since 2009 NBN Co has "passed" 200K and a good chunk of those can't order the service. They've also spent 12% of the capex delivering 0.5% of the FTTP connections. His arguments are irrational. They only way to deliver something of this size is to be transport agnostic, stage the delivery and don't do stupid shit like throwing out 3.5million perfectly good 100mbps services that exist today so you can buy 100mbps services that double the cost in 2020. **** > > Why the Labor Party had so much difficulty selling this we will probably > never know. > The only way to sell the NBN is to ignore time and money. The electorate isn't that stupid. David.
