<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Do you really believe that fibre offers a silver bullet, zero down-time, crackle free, drop out free, 100% perfect outcome?</div><div><br></div><div>Where on Earth does this preposterous suggestion come from?</div><div><br></div><div>The undisputed truth of the matter is that the (copper based) PSTN network in Australia has been super reliable for decades. Personally I'm in my 50's and cannot remember (possibly due to age) the last time my dial tone failed!</div><div><br></div><div>By contrast my VoIP service crackles, fails in all manner if ways, never actually rings but sounds liked it's ringing and otherwise offers no competition if the test is going to be based solely on 'availability'.</div><div><br></div><div>So could you PLEASE help my old Mum understand why she needs a tradie to attend her home to pull cables, then figure out which VoIP handset to buy, then which RSP to choose, then accept that it has wrinkles that's she's never previously conceived ... just because the ALP continues to assert that it's imperative that we spend billions on getting rid of something my old Mum is 100% happy with!!</div><div><br></div><div>HFC is perfectly suitable for script kids to download their stuff and if it only occurs at 40Mbs and not at 41Mb (due to coming to them from the USA ((despite their GigE NBN connection)) then they should just wait the extra few seconds.</div><div><br></div><div>These same kids invented 'butt chugging' because they couldn't even stand waiting the few minutes it takes to get drunk outa their minds on a Sat night .. and now they're controlling politics!</div><div><br></div><div>All this from a crowd that cannot even BEGIN to focus on the real issues such as solving the problem that ZERO tourists can land via aircraft in Sydney for 17% of every single day of every single week! Instead they're going to spend all of our money on moving the Navy from Garden Island to QLD.</div><div><br></div><div>Gimme a break!</div><div><br></div><div><br><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br>Sent from my iPhone powered by Polyfone Telecom<div><br></div></div><div><br>On 07/09/2013, at 9:48 PM, "<a href="mailto:wingar@team-metro.net">wingar@team-metro.net</a>" <<a href="mailto:wingar@team-metro.net">wingar@team-metro.net</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><style data-externalstyle="true"><!--
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--></style><div data-externalstyle="false" dir="ltr" style="font-family:Calibri,'Segoe UI',Meiryo,'Microsoft YaHei UI','Microsoft JhengHei UI','Malgun Gothic','Khmer UI','Nirmala UI',Tunga,'Lao UI',Ebrima,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div>It’s not just WA that gets it. Anywhere even semi-rural get’s it.</div><div data-signatureblock="true"><div> </div><div>~Em</div><div> </div></div><div style="padding-top: 5px; border-top-color: rgb(229, 229, 229); border-top-width: 1px; border-top-style: solid;"><div><font face="Calibri, 'Segoe UI', Meiryo, 'Microsoft YaHei UI', 'Microsoft JhengHei UI', 'Malgun Gothic', 'Khmer UI', 'Nirmala UI', Tunga, 'Lao UI', Ebrima, sans-serif" style="line-height: 15pt; letter-spacing: 0.02em; font-family: Calibri, "Segoe UI", Meiryo, "Microsoft YaHei UI", "Microsoft JhengHei UI", "Malgun Gothic", "Khmer UI", "Nirmala UI", Tunga, "Lao UI", Ebrima, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt;"><b>From:</b> Jacob Bisby<br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, 7 September 2013 9:46 PM<br><b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a></font></div></div><div> </div>Nevermind the internet access, fibre would have solved the primitive <br>land-line phone call quality problems that plague my area and it's <br>surrounds in WA.<br><br>- Jacob<br><br>On 7/09/2013 7:39 PM, Tim March wrote:<br>> You won't need to worry about connecting to the NBN if you can't suss<br>> out how to correctly configure your CPE anyway =)<br>><br>><br>><br>> T.<br>><br>> On 7/09/13 9:37 PM, Daniel Watson wrote:<br>>> Well its offical<br>>><br>>> For those of you who are not watching (Not that i am, i glanced over)<br>>><br>>> Rudd 49, Abbott 79<br>>><br>>> I think its time to buy my airline ticket out of here...<br>>><br>>><br>>> D.<br>>><br>>><br>>><br>>> _______________________________________________<br>>> AusNOG mailing list<br>>> <a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>>> <a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><br>>><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>AusNOG mailing list</span><br><span><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a></span><br><span><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a></span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>