Comments on: Five things to like about the Coalition’s NBN policy http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/ Just Australia. Just technology. Mon, 20 May 2013 03:02:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Abel Adamski http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490532 Abel Adamski Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:31:57 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490532 Sorry Simon, the Comedy festival is over

]]> By: Michael Wyres http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490433 Michael Wyres Tue, 28 Aug 2012 23:30:10 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490433 Minus the 20 years of lost economic benefit.

Simple maths, right?

]]> By: Graham http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490422 Graham Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:30:36 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490422 s/reign/rein/

]]> By: Michael http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490383 Michael Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:33:45 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490383 Hi Renai,

Nice article. One issue though, under point 2 the report says “Turnbull is one of the most ‘tech-friendly’ politicians in the Federal Government”. He’s not in the Federal Government, he’s in the Federal Parliament. Government and Parliament are two very different institutions. You might want to edit that.

Cheers,
Michael

]]> By: Guywho'dliketocomment http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490355 Guywho'dliketocomment Tue, 28 Aug 2012 08:38:06 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490355 Yes that’s true, though the debt burden at that time would be a lot lower by doing it now.

]]> By: topdon http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490327 topdon Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:51:47 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490327 The fundamental issue i have with the Coalitions patch-work FTTN is that it will create a situation of “haves” and “have-nots”. Turnbull has already stated that he would allow the completion of existing contracts that pre-existed under a FTTH NBN. So, you’ll have one suburb with FTTH with speeds up of 100mbit down, with the next suburb restricted to FTTH to a maximum of 24mbit down. Not to mention that with fibre, the poential is for far greater speeds than that. Copper is limited.

Also, what would this situation create in the housing market in FTTH rural/metro areas?

]]> By: Steven http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490315 Steven Tue, 28 Aug 2012 04:42:43 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490315 PLEASE stop referring to the Liberal’s plan as NBN. It’s not the NBN at all, it’s a totally different plan and they don’t even have their own name.

Call it the Coalition’s FTTN plan or something.

You want to win a war against FUD? Stop mixing acronyms that will confuse people in the first place.

]]> By: Michael Wyres http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490306 Michael Wyres Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:58:24 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490306 Malcolm says he has such policy detail, but refuses to releas it. He’s been asked many times about technical details and costings, and flatly ignores the issue.

If he wants people to compare policies, he has to release it, so we can compare apples with apples.

As it stands, he wants us to compares apples with thin air.

]]> By: Michael Wyres http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490305 Michael Wyres Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:56:10 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490305 $1000 markup on something you got for nothing is a high price tag – probably sell for $100 and an couple of ciggies.

]]> By: Michael Wyres http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490303 Michael Wyres Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:53:16 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490303 Much of it is sourced from government debt, and the rest from the debt market. That is what I meant, and you know that. We’ve had this discussion enough times already.

]]> By: Dean http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490300 Dean Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:34:18 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490300 The main problem I would say is finding a buyer. They might be worth $1000, but who’s going to buy a $1000 battery from some guy in a pub?

]]> By: John http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490298 John Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:31:35 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490298 My home phone/adsl went down the last time we had heavy rain and I chatted to a few neighbours in surrounding streets and they all have had problems in the past year with their phone lines, especially when it rains. This is in Frenchs Forest NSW, not the country. Even after it was repaired my ADSL speed has dropped to 5Mbps! I would expect reliability issues would remain with FTTN. It must be costing a fortune sending repair guys to fix dodgy connections throughout the network and I can only see this getting worse as the network ages. We need FTTP. Let’s do it right, otherwise money will be wasted patching the copper wires going to homes from the cabinet.

]]> By: Observer http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490297 Observer Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:22:48 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490297 What I can’t get my head around is how the Coalition’s musings about the NBN can be described as a policy.
I always thought a policy was a detailed, preferably fully costed, document, not some broad, undefined, often contradictory series of announcements

]]> By: Observer http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490295 Observer Tue, 28 Aug 2012 02:17:46 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490295 This article reminds me of long term relationships. Ask your partner 5 things they like about you and… it takes them ages to come up with some trivial things.

]]> By: GongGav http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490291 GongGav Tue, 28 Aug 2012 01:53:46 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490291 Where I live they’d sue for damages, claiming that the batteries didnt have the right safety warnings…

]]> By: Abel Adamski http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490284 Abel Adamski Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:47:42 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490284 Tel
Just for interest, where is Malcolm today? – Opening a new Opticom FTTH estate.
The greenfield operstors are just that. They do the cheap and easy to install greenfields estates. They have had the opportunity for over a decade to run FTTH to brownfield or blackspot areas, haven’t seen them installing in my area.

The Greenfield estates are open to all, NBN is just an option in them, up to the developers

]]> By: seven_tech http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490283 seven_tech Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:41:38 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490283 @Dan

True. Said lowlife would need at least one lowlife friend and a stolen Ute to carry the batteries in these things though. Or said lowlife may be in on Medicare for a bad back :D

]]> By: Anthony http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490281 Anthony Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:35:19 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490281 lol

]]> By: Anthony http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490280 Anthony Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:31:52 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490280 @TEL
>”I think the slow but bulldozer-like deleveraging of debt around the world is eventually going to prove accounting is right and Keynesians wrong.”

Everyone that I know that has wealth, has utilised debt to get there.

The only prerequisite is – the ability to ‘serivce’ said debt.

Debt is fine if you have an ability to repay. It isn’t rocket science.

]]> By: Renai LeMay http://delimiter.com.au/2012/08/27/five-things-to-like-about-the-coalitions-nbn-policy/#comment-490278 Renai LeMay Mon, 27 Aug 2012 23:24:20 +0000 http://delimiter.com.au/?p=136563#comment-490278 I’ll take that as an insult :) you French pig dog!

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