Robert Howells wrote:
On 16/11/2004, at 1:03 PM, Mike MOORE wrote:
I received a reply from Dr Washer's office (he is our local Federal
MP) about my query to him on when the Telstra upgrade in the Joondalup
area that he promised in the election campaign would occur.
The advice is July 2005 -
That's simply not good enough !
So I pondered the question : Why should this be ?
Is it because Telstra is not allowed to compete with Private enterprise ?
Is there so little money to be made out of this function that private
enterprise are sitting on their hands ?
Is the " PRICE FIXING " by the ACCC the cause of the lack of enterprise.
Did we allow the Federal Government to " CON " us into this competitive
enterprise
where the PROFITS go back to Shareholders INSTEAD of back into
INFRASTRUCTURE ?
If we can believe Mike's broad brush
then Private enterprise which has provided the u beaut American system
would surely be thundering down the straight to provide ours ! ?
If not, why not ?
Bob
ROFLMAO if this was not so serious it would be a JOKE.
<Rant>
What has deregulation and privitization got us ? (and yes telstra is
more than 70% privitized you just do not realise it(Telstra moved cable
laying out to 2 new groups called NDG and dimond comunications, NDG also
took over cell instalations, PABX and commander service and install went
to Commander, all these companies have been sold off !! Last year
Telstra sacked all the C&G teams (Corporate and Government) most of
these people were picked up by private industry)
We have an Infrastructure that is falling apart, lack of needed
equipment (a rim went down in one suburb last week and it took 3 days to
fix as we had no spare cpu cards in WA, had to be air bagged from
Adelaide) We are paying top dollar for a network that is falling apart.
I do not think it will get better only worse !!
No one has incentive to pump money into the system, why buy a bunch of
DSLAMs and put them in exchanges when telstra can sell you the service
to on sell to your customers. (It would take you a good 5 years to
recoupe the money you invest on DSLAMs alone, without paying for the ATM
or private fibre links between your equipment, and if you use YOUR
equipment in the exchange, you have to pay Telstra power, rent for space
and rent on the customers copper cable to carry the signal, when you add
it up it is cheaper to buy wholesale and resell it. so we have NO reason
to compete.
I wish the Governments both state and federal would stop selling of
services for short term gain and instead look at the future and start
ENFORCING standards.
</end Rant>
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