[AusNOG] Screw the NBN, says TPG: We'll do our own FTTB

[Paul Wallace]

Actually that fully funded earlier version of the NBN looked almost identical to part of the current NBN

It's 3G type wireless in the bush ... including parts of Toowoomba .. a city of 100k people.

The really cynical thing is that Conroy killed that build. It was funded & awarded. The winning consortium was a group called 'OPEL' made up of Optus & Westfarmers.

Mr Conroy wants to suggest that Optus knows nothing whatsoever about Telecoms whilst concurrently asserting that the Government knows more, hence killing off OPEL, wait 2 years & then roll out basically the same thing in the midst of the NBN!

Gimme a break!

Obviously it would have only have helped the people in the bush that need it!

... as opposed to the current NBN which mandates the forcing of users OFF very high speed HFC onto the NBN.

My sister has an Optus HFC service In Melbourne & she & her kids absolutely love it.

So when you go to suggest that she's a fool & that she would be far happier on potentially slower (if you buy the lower packages) NBN well ... you'll need to take that argument up with here personally ... she's a labour voter too but cannot understand why she is being pushed OFF the HFC network she loves so much!









From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Paul Brooks
Sent: Tuesday, September 17, 2013 9:45 PM
To: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Screw the NBN, says TPG: We'll do our own FTTB

On 17/09/2013 9:28 PM, Paul Wallace wrote:
The network WOULD have not only existed by probably been completed today actually if Mr Conroy hadn't killed it off in its infancy.

"A" network of some sort would have Paul - but I'll wager anything you like that we would still be bellyaching about how expensive/braindead/unreliable/insert-favourite-gripe-of-the-day it was, and floating all sorts of ideas about how it could and should have been done faster/slower/cheaper/costlier and with a different technology, different owner, builder, operator and operating model.
Further, if it had ever been deemed "completed" we would have fallen over laughing at the concept, and been proposing all sorts of ways to extend/expand/change it "like they should have done at the beginning" if only "they" had the foresight that this list has been blessed with - if only "they" had asked us.

In short - it wouldn't matter who did what, the AusNOG community would find something to criticise about it ;-)

(It seems to be what we do when we're not busy fixing stuff - so I'm reassured that everybody's networks must be extraordinarily stable this evening)

Paul.
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