John Linton ....on our fourteenth or so visit since we first came here to explore the possibilities of setting up an operation. The usual 16 hours door to door trip which is quite punishing but relieved by actually immediately falling asleep and not waking up for six hours - a rare luxury. So we arose and greeted the steamy, monsoonal day with enthusiasm and began this very exciting week.
The new office space looks like all partially completed office space and the likelihood of it being completed on schedule by next Monday would be less than 1% in my untutored opinion. However the view from the 35th Floor of the West Tower is breathtaking which will be an ongoing consolation once people are able to work there. Meanwhile I am using the one remaining spare desk in our East tower floorspace to work as we are now fully committed and if the new space is not completed sometime close to schedule we will have to use temporary hot desking which is not something I ever thought we would do.
I read the various articles on fewer than expected ISPs signing up the NBNCo contracts with a degree of contempt at the childishness of the Australian media:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/under-50-of-isps-sign-onto-nbn-contract-339329191.htm
I imagine most ISPs who haven't signed the contract still have the people responsible for doing that still on their annual holidays. Companies such as Telstra and Optus aren't selling NBNCo services at the moment anyway so it is totally immaterial whether or not they have signed up or not at this particular day - they aren't going to 'miss out' on anything for a fair while as there is very little to sell right now and, according to all published reports, there won't be anything to sell for some considerable time....
....and that point seems to escape the children who call themselves "industry commentators".....no-one/company is selling any real amount of NBNCo services because there are none to sell beyond a household here and there and that won't change anytime soon. So, no ISP (from Telstra on down) is "missing out" on anything by not signing up to the current version of the NBNCo contract. Whether any ISPs who have not signed the currently offered contract will do so in the next few days or at some future time that suits their individual needs is something I have zero knowledge about - but what can it possibly matter to anyone? Who is disadvantaged? I can't see how it matters to anyone in any way. It is meaningless non-news.
Just for the record, Exetel will sign the currently offered agreement before the 'dead line' because the person responsible for that area of our business returned to work on the 9th as I am sure at least some equivalent people at other ISPs have done.
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