John Linton ......in these uncertain financial times:
1) The current bunch of uneducated morons posing as an Australian Federal Government has absolutely no competence, background, training, education or any other qualification to even start to understand what is going on.
2) They have even less than those abilities required to begin to understand what actions, if any, by an Australian Government should be taken.
If you have ANY doubt, whatsoever, about these statements then I suggest you read today's Australian Financial Review from first to last page and then, before going to look for the 12 gauge, just remember that 50.1% of Australians created this situation and PROMISE yourself that at future elections when you have been blessed with freedom from the crazinesses of Labor doctrinaire stupidities for a decade you will REPEAT THE MANTRA:
Whitlam, Hawke, Keating, Krudd....Every One A Total Dud
500 times before going within 100 metrers of an election booth.
Maybe the report from the "Ideas Summit" - that pinnacle of stupidity that defines Krudd's understanding of the responsibilities of a PM will solve all of his current lack of ideas? ...or is he still hoping that piece of sheerest nonsense has been forgotten by the electorate along with his other vital contributions to managing Australia like saying "sorry" and signing the "Kyoto Protocols" and then saying he isn't going to do what is required? While that moon faced, grinning fool ponced around with trivialities and jetting round the globe he should have been desparately trying to get up to speed trying to understand what Australia's economy was transforming into - but that would have required an intellect, self dicipline and humility - three attributes he clearly lacks.
Along with scrapping work choices without replacing it with anything other than vague promises as unemployment is set to rapidly increase he has, within 12 months, pretty much defined himself as the worst Australian Prime Minister Australia has ever had (and Whitlam set what I thought was an unbeatable low in that contest) and easily the most incompetent ever across so many different areas of knowledge.
Thank goodness the comms press wasn't so universally depressing today.
I was curious about the last paragraph of an IDC report:
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/273990/idc_top_10_telco_predictions_2009?fp=4194304&fpid=1
commenting on the future of HSPA. While I very much doubt that IDC has any more insight into the future of broad band comunications in Australia than anyone else who follows the market relatively closely it would be ineresting to see the 'research' that prompted that statement to be made. I agree that wimax is never going to be of any interest in Australia - a view I formed almost two years ago in the earlier stages of looking for a wireless broad band service for Exetel.
Exetel will begin various promotions of HSPA (both as a broad band data service and as a mobile/VoIP service) in February with the objective of activating more monthly HSPA services per month than ADSL services by July/August 2009. It's far too early for us, based on sales to date, to be confident about achieving that objective but we are hopeful that it's more than possible for a tiny company to do things that the carriers just can't do on a low end service such a HSPA - and in some cases they absolutely don't want to do at all.
I have no idea how many HSPA services are being sold each month in Australia at the moment but would guess that its overtaken broadband sales in terms of new users and has started to eat in to the ADSL1 installed user base at the low end. As HSPA speeds increase in more geographic areas this trend can only continue to increase and my 'bet' would be that by mid 2009 HSPA will outsell new ADSL by something like 2:1.
If that is going to turn out to be anything like correct it will be interesting to see how the ISPs who have committed themselves to futures based on ADSL2 networks deal with such a change in technologies (should it occur as swiftly as I'm postulating). A great deal of 'discounting' and 'cannibalisation'?....almost certainly.
I have to say that after four months I am more than happy with my Exetel/Optus HSPA driven laptop and my Exetel/Optus driven N95 which I ony use to make VoIP mobile calls and send Exetel 5 cent SMS's.
So there's a third thing you can be absolutely certain about:
3) HSPA will become the dominant broad band technology much faster than is currently widely predicted.