[AusNOG] Help with NBN questions.

[Tim McCullagh]

Re: [AusNOG] Help with NBN questions.
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  From: Bevan Slattery 
  To: Daniel Hooper ; ausnog at ausnog.net 
  Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 2010 8:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Help with NBN questions.


  BBC and HIBIS were a lesson in how government (Howard) missed another opportunity to help the industry. 

  HiBIS was a good scheme, the problem was that DCITA stuffed it up.  Because wireless took off DCITA wanted to reduce the amount being spent and so cut wireless out as best they could and favoured Satellite.

   Could have built serious open backhaul networks,

  That is debateable.  I am a believer in aggregating demand then scaling the backhaul.   

  Some of the operators had undertakings from the nationals re bachaul, but then the pollies tried to speed things up Opel etc and oddly enough the nationals changed their mind or more accurately doubled the price of the backhaul.   Oddly enough the pollies had one motivation and DCITA had another that weren't on the same page.  Then there was the issue of spectrum etc.


   instead shelled out money to many operators (not all) who were merely in it to take as much cash off the table by providing the the cheapest solution to deliver the minimum qualifing service for funding.

  That was DCITA's responsibility and they did a piss poor job of it.   A number of us sat in Canberra in 2004 and told them how it could be abused, and made some suggestions how to avoid the abuse, they didn't listen and they didn't act.  However many that you think used the cheapest solution wasn't necessarily by choice.  They couldn't get spectrum.  We asked DCITA to speak with the ACMA, not possible

  There are a lot of people that think they know what went on, but few do.   At the end of the day it came down to poor program design and not enough funding and DCITA not listening to feedback.  

    And what about the majority of these users today?  

  Some are on ADSL, some are on Wireless fixed and mobile and some on Satellite

  Well they're on NextG and those townships still have no competitive backhaul.

  The business case for competitive fibre comes from demand,  the build and they will come model has failed so many times

  regards

  Tim


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