<div class="gmail_quote">On 1 December 2010 01:35, Steve Lisson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:SteveL@dedicatedservers.net.au">SteveL@dedicatedservers.net.au</a>></span> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); ">You may hate me for this but I am for the
NBN, even if costs more than what would cost a commercial entity to do so as
think it will realise better results overall than what any commercial roll-out
would do, have been very surprised by their target percentage.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The key is for you to define "better overall result". Better Internets? Better value for money? If you take cost out of the equation of any pie-in-the-sky project then the result will always be great. </div>
<div><br></div><div>$43bln (which will be $120bln and 50 dead technicians by the time Labor are finished with the project) is a metric pantload of coinage and the federal budget is finite. You might want to include mental illness/health/education/state of the indigenous population in that "better results overall"? </div>
<div><br></div><div>Oh wait, I forgot the nonsense du jour: roads and the JSF are expensive so why not buy a $43bln Internets (personally, I want a space elevator while we're at it). </div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); ">I believe it _<i><span style="font-style:italic">should</span></i>_ already be better than this. At least with the NBN
you will know when moving to a location you will know if it is there or not and
that it will be rolled out at some point if not already. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(0, 0, 128); ">While I do not agree with some of what
they are doing (e.g. gpon, L2 (but that is just personal and can not currently
see how L3 deployment could work without NBN doing more than they will already
need to)), but that is the _<i><span style="font-style:italic">cost</span></i>_
of government getting involved to rectify an issue.</span></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>"that is the _cost_ of government getting involved to rectify an issue" *chortle*</div><div><br></div><div>
If by "rectify" you mean "stuff up" and if by "cost" you mean "unknown and probably infinite cost plus dead people and quite a few commercial casualties who are run out of business by the government running the project in an economically dodgy way to make the thing look like a success when it is done at any cost" - then I'd agree. Most everything run at a federal or state level is a balls up/late/over budget/dead people. The government can't deliver consistent or good health or education outcomes (and they've been trying for 109 years now) or get value for money putting Stratco sheds up at the local school - what the hell chance have they got of building the NBN in time or budget? </div>
<div><br></div><div>I mean, if you had a supplier who ran every project for you as late, over budget, and ultimately a dodgy outcome - would you give them $43bln and ask them to build a national fibre network?</div><div>
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</div><div>As for whether the government should be involved at all, as Mark Smith posted earlier on this thread: <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; border-collapse: collapse; "><a href="http://fee.org/library/books/economics-in-one-lesson/" target="_blank" style="color: rgb(17, 37, 8); ">http://fee.org/library/books/<span class="il">economics</span>-in-one-lesson/</a></span></div>
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