John Linton ....."catch up for Christmas/celebrate/thank you for your business invitations" - 23; Christmas Cards - 11.....indicating an even higher level of insincerity or desperation than in previous years.......alternatively an increasingly "bah, humbug" attitude on my part.....probably the latter.
Yesterday was spent mostly on looking at various aspects of the various budgets for the next two months and trying to work out just how to deal with various aspects of providing ADSL2 services in the future - particularly how to deal with 'naked' ADSL2 services in the current marketplaces where the illusions of providing an ADSL service (which by definition require a PSTN line) without charging for a PSTN line have become truly ridiculous. I always, somewhat grimly, smile when I see various people say/write "I'm going 'naked' so I don't have to pay !@#$%^ Telstra any more". I wonder how such people would react if they knew that their ISP was actually paying Telstra 500% more to cripple a ULL line rather than simply providing part of that line to provide ADSL over SSS?
It is just one of the Alice In Wonderland scenarios that a company of Exetel's size has to deal with on a daily basis. It is the cloud cuckoo land scenario of Telstra Wholesale telling us that our pricing for a 'bundled' telephone and ADSL line from them is 100% more expensive than the Telstra supplied service we buy from Optus (who buy from Telstra) and Optus is making a 100% mark up on that service - how does a rational person keep their sanity in such circumstances - assuming you don't possess the Red Queen's ability of being able to "believe six impossible things before breakfast"?
I found these of little comfort:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/22/3073469.htm
http://www.businessspectator.com.au/bs.nsf/Article/broadband-internet-NBN-Gillard-Conroy-government-pd20101123-BFS78?OpenDocument&src=kgb
As anyone who has read my opinions on the 'NBN2' would know I have regarded it as a political stunt since it was first announced to cover up the total ludicrosity of the 'NBN1'. However, since the Australian electorate allowed Mrs Faustus to cling on to a pretense of government a few months ago it is now inevitable that the communications industry in this country will have to suffer the consequences and no good can come of any protracted delay in proving to the dummies that the 'NBN2' is nothing but a political rort that will badly damage the Australian communications industry. The only way of now dealing with the 'NBN2' is to expose it to reality by seeing just what gets 'delivered' as soon as possible and then making some far more sensible decisions - but perhaps that's as far beyond the Australian electorate as it is beyond the clowns and liars in the current 'gubmant'- as Ms Faustus continues to pronounce it. Has anyone else noticed that her beautician (now there's a challenging job) has put too much pink in her red hair dye recently?
If the crazy Greek does get to delay the Telstra Split legislation required to keep the 'NBN2' fiasco on track then Telstra will face even more issues than if the legislation is passed and the current 'win back market share at all costs' campaigns will go on even longer than if the legislation is passed. If that happens then who knows what ongoing repercussions that would cause?
It appears that the lunatics really are now running the asylum.
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