[AusNOG] Correlation between voting zones and NBN Rollout zones.

[Paul Wallace]

I recall that before this thing morphed into the political stalking horse that it's become that the point of the NBN was to help people in the bush! Simple as that! How it then changed to KICKING OFF in Collins St, Pitt St & George St ... well you can answer that as well as I can.

Don't forget that Mr Conroy rubbed out the OPEL project setting the nation back over four years in terms of providing better services to people in the bush, not to mention the need to blow cash on compensating the OPEL consortium stakeholders. All because it wasn't his project. So he killed it off, waited three years to launch that's basically the same service & then hollers "look what I'm doing for you fine people in the bush". 

If he's not killed it off the OPEL rollout would have been finished long before now.









-----Original Message-----
From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of David Hughes
Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2012 2:17 PM
To: adamn at eyemedia.com.au
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Correlation between voting zones and NBN Rollout zones.


>From a "fairness" perspective it makes sense for the initial roll-out to be where there are currently no or limited broadband services.  From a "commercial" perspective it makes sense for the initial roll-out to be where there are bulk customers ready to subscribe.  The sooner they build revenue the less they will be "costing the tax payer" etc.  So it's a juggling act for them and I don't envy that job.


David
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On 09/10/2012, at 2:38 PM, adamn at eyemedia.com.au wrote:

> Could someone clear something up for me?
> Why would you roll the NBN out the places that in fact ALREADY have 
> connectivity options (multiple options) of some sort?  xDSL etc 
> Wouldn't it have been more effective on the "sign up" to roll it out 
> to the places that in fact don't have connectivity options, wouldn't 
> the take up in those areas "look" better on paper? (I'm just guessing 
> that the "on paper numbers" is all they really care about).
> 
> Regards,
> Adam
> 
> 
> 
> From:   Mark Newton <newton at atdot.dotat.org>
> To:     Glen Greig <glen at greig.net.au>
> Cc:     "ausnog at lists.ausnog.net" <ausnog at lists.ausnog.net>
> Date:   09/10/2012 02:31 PM
> Subject:        Re: [AusNOG] Correlation between voting zones and NBN 
> Rollout zones.
> Sent by:        ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 01:25:53PM +1000, Glen Greig wrote:
> 
>> To me it looks suspiciously like those NBN areas are tending to be
> built in
>> areas of high population density like suburbs and currently avoiding
> areas
>> like forests and farmland.
>> Looks like prudent planning to me.
> 
> I thought the same thing -- I bet all those Liberal voters living on 
> top of Mount Coot-Tha will be burning up with jealousy.
> 
> The other thing worthy of mention is that the green "3" regions won't 
> even start planning until after the next election, and are unlikely to 
> be completed until the one after.  The purple "1" areas might just 
> squeak in before next year's election, so I guess all those billions 
> of ALP voters living on the airport paddock will be beside themselves 
> with glee.
> 
> I wonder if we can work out who produced the diagram by seeing who 
> lives at the red indicator next to Keparra? :)
> 
>  - markk
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