But, an interesting and very-much-to-the-point rant.
For the record, the same thing happens to me every time I comment on the LNP's
farcical (and tragic for the country) NBN.
A waste of money, time, and effort and a compromise of the country's future for
the next 20 to thirty years ... all
On Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 10:38:42AM +1000, David Lochrin wrote:
> And neither HFC nor the copper network were engineered to be part of a
> broadband network in the first place
HFC is basically cable TV repurposed for internet use. Which might have made
sense in the US where cable tv is almost
On 10/08/2017 09:50, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
Which bit of his argument do you disagree with?
"There's nothing inherent in the NBN that's strangling its speed and
giving customers grief; it's inherent in the pricing model it adopted
to make it look as if it could make money."
It's not clear
On 10/08/2017 10:38 AM, David Lochrin wrote:
On Thursday 10 August 2017 at 09:50 Hamish Moffatt wrote:
...
Right up front Peter Martin quotes "Australia's foremost telecommunications
analyst" Ian Martin ...
Wasn't there an Ian Martin involved in the 2013 strategic review?
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David Boxall
> On 10/08/17 09:10, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>>> I'm in a twitter argument with him. He doesn't understand technology.
>>> Please come and help out, set him straight. @1petermartin
At 2:06 PM +1000 10/8/17, Kim Holburn wrote:
>How many years now have the Libs been managing the NBN? If the Labor
On Thursday 10 August 2017 at 12:05 Jim Birch wrote:
> $50 billion for a national FTTN network is a lot of money. This very close
> to the Australia's annual expenditure on road infrastructure. The value has
> been estimated at $280 billion. I don't have a split for maintenance v.
>
> On 2017/Aug/10, at 9:50 AM, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
>
> On 10/08/17 09:10, Jan Whitaker wrote:
>> Did you all see this today:
>> http://www.theage.com.au/comment/dodgy-from-the-start-dont-blame-turnbull-for-labors-flawed-nbn-20170809-gxsa5v.html
>>
>> I'm in a twitter
$50 billion for a national FTTN network is a lot of money. This very close
to the Australia's annual expenditure on road infrastructure. The value
has been estimated at $280 billion. I don't have a split for maintenance
v. improvement.
A per premise cost of $4k for FTTN as 25 years loan at 4%
On Thursday 10 August 2017 at 09:50 Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> Which bit of his argument do you disagree with?
Right up front Peter Martin quotes "Australia's foremost telecommunications
analyst" Ian Martin - any relation?
"Let's be clear, technology is not the issue in slow speeds," he wrote in