[AusNOG] Long live the NBN. The NBN is dead?! [personal]

[Andrew Oskam]

The problem I have with agreeing with you, Is that your "Roll Royce" analogy that your using isn't very fitting for this countries scenario.

People buy a new car when they need and/or want it. Whether an individual buys a new car or not doesn't really have an impact on the rest of the country.

Broadband on the other hand, is an economical asset that we can't really just sit on our hands on and just upgrade when we want it.

Maybe we don't need it now. Maybe we won't need it 4 years from now. But in 10 years time when we do want it or need it we will end up saying to ourselves "Hmmm, shame we didn't upgrade 10 years ago - I could've used 100Mbit right about now".

Technology changes so rapidly and it's usefulness to many business is changing all the time. This isn't a bridge we can just cross when the time comes, we're already years behind the rest of the world and we should be looking care of an asset that has had so many years of abandonment.

I see your reasoning for upgrading other sectors - yes, they are bad. But, they get attention all the time - it's time the light was on Broadband for a change.


Andrew Oskam
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On 11/08/2010, at 3:29 PM, Tim McCullagh wrote:



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Brooks" <pbrooks-ausnog at layer10.com.au>
> 
> Taking an 'I'm allright Jack, bugger you' approach isn't one I'm
> comfortable with.

So are you saying that everyone should be driving a new shinny roll royce 
because your 10 year old holden needs to be replaced?  Lets buy everyone a 
new car now and not just any car but lets all get rolls royces even though 
we can't afford the payments, that doesn't matter the government will pay. 
Where does the government get its money ?  Thats right from you and I

It isn't about Im all right jack, it is aboput committing all australians to 
a new shinny monopoly network that can screw any and all of them at some 
point in time, so that you or the people that have a need can be 
accommodated and everyone else has to pay.  It means going backwards to 
government owned monopolies that can increase prices at will.

This whole issue has been misrepresented for to long and the sooner those 
pushing a complete rebuild of the communications network can supply a 
business case including demand and cost curves the better.

Granted there are parts of australia that have poor or no service then this 
is where the focus should be.  Not building a forth network over the top of 
3 other networks that can supply what is needed for many users today and 
then scrapping the 3 existing networks so that the 4 th network owner can 
charge whatever they like.   Talk about a Con job.

regards

Tim


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