On 16 December 2013 22:33, Tony Wright <[email protected]> wrote: > No, the fact that you went completely out of your way to shoot down the > Labor NBN without a single critical word of the Liberal plan is what makes > you partisan. >
Pretty sure I was critical of CVC charges, which inherently was a labor plan to keep it off the budget - which doesn't automatically make me a liberal shill, btw. > By the way, I got an email from Jon Dart suggesting that CVC is still in. > Yeah figured from the strategic review. So disappoint. The Libs talked about it greatly before the election and aligned themselves with the industry consensus. Then it isn't mentioned in the review. They get a F- in my books as a result - then again I said the whole plan from either party was shit from the get go. > He also made the statement “it is assumed that instead of > decommissioning the HFC networks, Telstra and/or Optus would transfer > ownership of the network. They’re going to hand over the networks for no > cost apparently. And $4 billion dollars to upgrade the system to FTTP in > 13 years. Hmmm, believable. Not. > I have no idea in that regard and have to wait until a deal is done as we're well into the territory of guessing. Previously T and Optus were going to give up 100% of their IP related HFC revenue under the existing agreements. I *doubt* they give a shit if NBN Co tries to do a few fibre drops down a street to lower end user contention (at the last mile, while leaving massive contention at the network core lulz). The Commonwealth can't reneg on the existing commitments, but they can certainly drag their feet and make life damned hard for the telcos. I suspect they will want settlement under existing terms as expeditiously as possibly for the sake of their shareholders/continued employment. We will see what happens. Either way, I'm nonplussed. BTW, bonus points for the nice dodge on my last post about iiNets likely invoices from NBN Co. As Ken says, it is kind of like climate change when you think about it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh2sWSVRrmo No, really. David.
