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

[Chris Chaundy]

No personal digs intended - just clearing up some misinformation that
appeared from someone a day or so ago (I thought it was this thread
but there has been so much traffic, it has almost been impossible to
keep up).  And yes - this is very much 'the Australian way', for
better or for worse...

On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Jason Lingohr <jason at lucid.net.au> wrote:
>
> 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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