[AusNOG] background radiation was: "i want a pony!"(wasRe:Longlive the NBN. The NBN is dead?! [personal])

[Jason Lingohr]

On 13/08/2010 10:02 AM, Chris Chaundy wrote:
> Just for the 'younger' members of this group, there once was a
> government department
> that was basically in charge of *all* communications (telephone,
> postal and telegraph -
> watch some black-and-white movies if you want to know what this is :-)
> - it was called
> the PMG (Post Master General's department).  Telecom came into being
> after this was
> split up into the pre-privatization 'Telstra' and Australia Post (aka Auspost).

Yes... your point?  (If this was a dig at me Chris, swing n miss :P)

> If the original Telstra privatization had been carefully thought
> through and not screwed up,
> we wouldn't be going through this whole NBN discussion now.

Absolutely... but we just followed the same old Australian way didn't
we?  Pay no heed and fall behind.  Can't win really, can we?  We ask
government to look after the "cables under the footpath", and we end up
in a monolithic, sloth-speed monopoly.  We ask the private sector to
look after it, and we get companies only spending money where they can
make it back (of course).

(A point well made by someone whom I now can't remember on last nights'
ABC1 Q&A...)


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