To paraphrase Oliver Hardy: "Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten us into".
Malcolm Turnbull locks in multi-technology NBN
http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/govern...ks-in-multitechnology-nbn-20140409-zqsqq.html
From the comments (of which the vast majority are critical of Mtm):-
Turnbull /ˈtərn-bo͝ol/ verb. use deception to deprive a country of its future prosperity. "Australia's #NBN was turnbulled"
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1999
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April 10, 2014, 10:26AM
What is the saying? Those who do not remember their past are condemned to repeat their mistakes..."
And we clearly have learned nothing from the railway gauge issue!
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Jack
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April 10, 2014, 7:42AM
Having banged on endlessly about the need for a cost benefit analysis of the NBN approach during the previous government, I assume the CBA for this new model will be released imminently.
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Dingo
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April 10, 2014, 6:22AM
Fraudband is Fraudband no matter how uyou package it. We will not have businesses having access to 100Mb/s both ways, required to send large files in both directions. We willnot have the bandwidth to monitor our oldies intheir homes and thus not be required to move to nursing homes. This is an abomination of a system that will require big bikkies to be spent inthe future to bring it up to the 100Mb/s both ways Labor was building. It will cost us more in electricity to run (Melb Uni says anextra 2-3 power station equivalents will be required to power it. It can not be upgraded to 1000Mb/s that fibre to the premises was. Fraudband is Fraudband no matter how it is spun by this rediculous government who have kept us in the internet technology wilderness now for 15 years.
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Pollyho
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April 09, 2014, 11:27PM
What a complete, utter and disgraceful joke! Not even waiting for the reviews they put in place to give them a technically sensible answer to a long term and crucially important national infrastructure. This is just like their claytons Direct Action Plan to 'achieve' carbon emission reductions morphed to turn the NBN into the same hollow 'nothing ever going to be achieved' approach and leave us once again pathetically lagging the rest of the world.
Honestly, can anyone still credit Turnbull with any sense of somehow being of a more 'noble' breed of politician?
We are going to be a much hollowed, much less 'Australian' Australia by the time this mob are out even if its only a one term wonder. It is a shameless government, seeking to fashion us into a divided, narrow and mean set of little people.
Not just by something as visionless and neo-conservatively antisocial as the demolishing of a nation building NBN, but by their same visionless, antisocial demolishing of the sociocultural fabrics of our nation. Medicare weakening, selling off a profitable Medibank, reducing or removing taxes from mining giants and pricing carbon, to paying polluters and continuing subsidy to mining giants.
What do we, the people, get? Slashed and reduced services, inequitable school funding based on discredited models underfunded or cancelled social programmes to name but a very few.
I bet they'll find the money for goals, multibillion dollar asylum seeker patrols and lockup of children, inequitable paid parental leave schemes, private hospitals and schools and corporate subsidies.
This abominated NBN is just a small and subtle example of a philosophy that doesn't believe in an actively cohesive society, one that prioritises its people's needs human as a nation. To them we are units of productivity, and by no means all equal.
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Warwick
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April 09, 2014, 10:09PM
Yes, well done Malcolm, the Business case you drew up to support....oh wait...
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Dave
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April 09, 2014, 10:05PM
How many more broken promises will it take for Australians to wake up to the fact that they have been sold a lemon ???
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Wake Up
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Sydney
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April 09, 2014, 9:49PM
So once again we have a set of politicians believing they know more then the experts...so why do we pay for the reports and the advise??? The stupidity of this government and this minister knows no bounds - its all about the end - so lets implement a crap solution because we can and the fact that the NBN is and will be the backbone of the Australian economy for next 50 years is tomorrows problem because we'll waste 20-30B on a short term fix and tomorrow can pay the clean up build say 100b.
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really
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April 09, 2014, 8:48PM
Not waiting for the reviews? Isn't this what they accused Labor of doing?
All a bunch of lies for an inadequate system that will eventually need to be replaced with FttH and cost more than it is projected to cost now. The LNP have admitted they lied about the cost of Labor's NBN and now they're giving us true fraudband and surprise, surprise at about the same time frame a real NBN would take. Who can believe this mob?
Election now!
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n720ute
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North Coast NSW
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April 09, 2014, 8:24PM
There is nothing that smacks of arrogance quite like this. If you already know it all, why waste money on a review that you are going to ignore anyway? Shoddy Government wasting money to pretend to listen when it clearly doesn't. No wonder the recent senate vote sent them a message with a bigger swing than the kicking to Bill Shorten. We deserve a Government that actually reviews the best options, LISTENS, and then chooses what is best value for money. What we have is a one Man band who knows the cost of everything and the VALUE of nothing.
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Phil A
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Perth
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April 09, 2014, 7:50PM
the majority of home businesses are hobby businesses that develop into big business. A very big proportion of these businesses are women on maternity leave with craft businesses.
Those big tech businesses that start in someones back shed/study/garage are usually done by the teen members of the household rather than the parents. Teen members don't really have 5 g to spend on internet business.
At best it's a huge impost on businesses starting out (usually when they have very little income coming in) at worst it's going to cost Australia even more time in the tech race.
FttP is going to happen it's how we get there is currently under debate.
NBN was created because the last mile of copper is what needs replacing.
Mixed technology doesn't address the original issue and it's more expensive to get to the end goal
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Jess
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here
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April 10, 2014, 11:09AM