[AusNOG] GoodBye NBN

[Mark Delany]

On 09Sep13, Paul Wallace allegedly wrote:

> Last Saturday the people of Australia voted the supporters of FTTH out on &=
>  voted the supporters of FTTN in.

True.

> That tells us that more people don't care about the problems to do with the=
>  copper CAN than people who do care.

Post hoc ergo propter hoc. IOWs, not true.

It's more likely that larger issues like economic performance, cost of
living and employment levels dominated their decision-making and that
the NBN simply didn't rise to the surface as the most important
factor. Much as that might surprise us technocrats.

It says nothing about what people prefer. Indeed, surveys on the
matter have routinely shown preference for the FTTH variant.


Mark.