NBN & FTA's: The Coalition is lying to the public again

[pietillidie]

I'm no fan of Microsoft, but tech and data analytics-dependent companies don't dominate US large-cap stocks because use of the Internet is "discretionary", as the Neanderthals who still think the Internet is for teenage fun, porn and little more would deceive a naive Australian public into believing.

Blocking the data-oriented, motion-computing-driven, remote manufacturing, remote service-delivering, AI-oriented, information premium-based future economy is not simply ignorant, it's disgracefully unethical and self-destructive.

[think positive]

It's not for looking at funny pictures of cats during work hours?

[Wokko]

The reason for no fibre to the home is because Murdoch is terrified that superfast broadband will kill off the Foxtel golden goose. Like the canal owners who violently tried to smash the railroads, so is the old tech trying to kill off the new tech as much as possible.

Now the question becomes how do the Liberals pay the piper that played the tune they wanted through the election? They can give News Corp channel 10, review anti siphoning laws or kill off fibre to the home (well make sure it's a user cost to get it connected). Time will tell which one/s happen.

[pietillidie]

Gawd, how could I have missed this gem:

[stui magpie]

^

If you believe what the CEPU says about anything, you're seriously deluded.

[Tannin]

Whereas if you believe what Turnbull and the Liberal Party says about most things, you are loopier than a cereal box, and if you believe anything that Turnbull and the Liberal Party says about the NBN they are so busy wrecking, you are so damn loopy we could put you in as bowl and pour milk over you anytime we need some instant high-fat tooth decay.

Thanks, I'll take what the people actually doing the work say. Every time.

[Wokko]

A credibility fight between unions and politicians?

Muahahahaha

Sounds like an honesty competition between a used car salesman and a real estate agent.

[Tannin]

Go with the car salesman every time. At least he knows when he is lying.

[Wokko]

I love the Telstra management quotes about the copper being fine, they're trying to SELL it for use in the new system. When some sucker comes along and wants to buy your clapped out VL, you don't tell him that you fixed the radiator with some gaffer tape and your cousin vinnie welded a steel plate over a huge hole in the boot... you just sell it to him.

Thing is, Turnbull looked the car over and knows it's a shitbox but can't get out of it, his boss wants that Car because HIS bosses told him to buy it. Watching Turnbull trying to sell this idea is quite funny, because he knows it's a load of horseshit that he's spouting but has to spout it anyway.

Fiber to the Node then having customer pay the fee for connection to the home would make a hell of a lot more sense than reusing the shitty copper network. Telcos could put the cost into plans and contract people like they do with mobiles/cable plans. It would create competition on installations of node-home connections driving down costs and also allow competition from telcos willing to subsidise connections.

For a so-called free market capitalist party the Liberals sure like to find bloated socialized solutions.

[watt price tully]

[Wokko]

[Culprit]

The NBN will be dead within six months.

[watt price tully]

[watt price tully]

"...The Coalition�s national broadband network model will prove inadequate for many businesses, is poorly planned and is unlikely to be completed on time, according to NBN Co�s internal analysis for the incoming Abbott government...."

Go figure.

http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/confidential-briefing-nbn-unlikely-to-meet-coalitions-deadline-20131128-hv3tp.html

Switkowski sweats:

http://www.theage.com.au/it-pro/government-it/coalitions-nbn-deadline-tough-to-meet-ziggy-switkowski-20131129-hv3x2.html

[rocketronnie]