John Linton .......casts a widening and darkening shadow over the future of communications in Australia and demonstrates the foolishness of minority governments in thrall to idiotic, parochial vested interests.
http://www.news.com.au/breaking-news/labor-claims-nbn-milestone-in-marathon-day/story-e6frfku0-1226029637347
Looking in to the future of the Australian communications industry has become progressively more difficult since Krudd's delusions were escalated via his cover up of his election promise lies (remember in September 2007 he promised to build a nation wide fibre network at a cost of $4.7 billion dollars?). Of course he was simply taking advantage of the fact that the electorate, particularly the people voting for the first time, are so stupid they will fall for almost anything....and most of the rest are, well, just stupid. So, courtesy of a stupid electorate and a lying Labor Party the actual future of large parts of the Australian communications industry is far more difficult for companies like Exetel to understand. Political chicanery has made a massive impact on some very serious aspects of how this country will 'operate' over the coming ten years and this time lying politicians have done something particularly stupid rather than their usual nonsensical promises about taxes or hand outs.
The only certain things about federal government projects are that they will cost more than announced, they will be delivered far later than promised and they won't produce the services defined as the end objective. Nothing has changed since Federation and therefore no one is particularly alarmed at yet another political waste of tax payers dollars - but the 'NBN2' is a completely different pan of pisces to the usual pissing away of taxpayer money on idiocies like billion dollar jet fighters, unnecessary submarines that if there was an actual conflict are so noisy and crewed so ineptly they would have a 'battle life' of a fraction of a second or the rest of the bribery defined wastes of money that plague this, and many other, "democracies".
This time political egoism, on a gigantic scale, has resulted in plans to scrap the current Australian communications infrastructure delivered by a recently privatised ex-government monopoly and replace parts of it with a communications infrastructure operated by a new government monopoly. How bad can that be - really? Well if you listen to the cacophony of ill informed, juvenile support for this mis-adventure it will be a plus compared to what currently exists. Maybe it will - but you really do have to wonder why, if an 'NBN2' is really such a clear cut obvious better service than what currently exists, it can only 'work' if the "obsolete and completely inadequate service" that delivers communications services today has to be ripped out to make the 'NBN2' viable.....particularly as that "obsolete and completely inadequate service" was sold off to the public for something like $30 billion dollars very recently.
I have spent some time looking at what the 'NBN2' really might mean to the vast majority of real people in Australia. From what I read on the public record I can see nothing of benefit (even ignoring the pissing away of more tens of billions of dollars of taxpayer money that isn't really relevant in terms of Labor governments as they would have pissed it away anyway on military stupidity or their other crazy schemes) being 'delivered via the 'NBN2' waste of money. I can't get past what any monopoly results in - prices increase and services decline. That cannot be argued with because in the history of what is laughingly referred to as 'the civilised world' NO monopoly has ever delivered anything better or at a lower cost than competing private enterprises do....that's why ALL private enterprises do their very best to kill off their competitors so they can gouge the huge profits that only a monopoly can generate.
But in the case of the 'NBN2' its much worse than the usual government monopoly. This instance is created by an egomaniac with zero knowledge of something as vital as nationwide telecommunications and is being continued on by a doctrinaire nincompoop who only sees one thing as being important in her life - extending the time she can pretend to be prime minister of Australia. In the mean time massive changes are underway across the depth and breadth of the Australian telecommunications delivery structures which no-one, at least no-one who cares to put their views on the public record, seems capable of understanding.
If you actually look at what is in train at the moment all you will see is that the cost of current data and telephone services is going to increase, and will keep increasing, the quality of those services will be below what is currently being delivered and will decline over time and there will be no improvement to those services (quite the reverse) from the moment the 'NBN2' is turned on.
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