The Australian Press Council has found that the Daily Telegraph within a short period of time had three articles on the same theme about the NBN contained inaccurate or misleading assertions. It considers that this sequence of errors should not have occurred and that they should have been corrected promptly and adequately when brought to the newspaper’s attention.
This is typical of the bullshit from the Murdoch press about the NBN.
Below is a link to the Press Council findings. Australian Press Council finding.
Well, Dr. No is still saying NO, when it comes to the arrival of the asylum seeker boats. What a surprise.
It is obvious he is not interested in talking and maybe some compromise that politics is generally about.
How disingenuous is he when he said he wanted something concrete from the Government before he would talk.
Now that labor have compromised, Dr No says NO.
No wonder the Independents did not go with him last year.
Australians need fast, reliable and affordable broadband services – delivered over an affordable highspeed broadband network using the best mix of optical fibre, wireless, DSL and satellite technologies.
The Coalition’s plan will deliver a uniform national broadband network, under which 97 percent of premises are able to be served by high speed networks capable of delivering from 100 Mbps down to a minimum of 12 Mbps peak speed, using a combination of technologies including HFC, DSL and fixed wireless.
This will help businesses to be more productive, reduce costs, reach more customers here and overseas and employ more Australians. It will help families with access to education, information and medical
services.
Keeping the HFC and DSL networks will only entrench Telstra's and to a lesser extent Optus monopoly.
I don't know how they are going to negotiate with Telstra so they can use their copper and HFC networks, maybe by magic. Telstra will have the conservatives by the short and curlies forever if they try and negotiate a deal to use their networks.
Continuing from their policy
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Labor is heading down the wrong track. Its government owned and government run broadband network
will be a taxpayer funded ‘white elephant’ when it is completed in eight years time. It does nothing to
deliver lower prices. It just substitutes one monopoly for another. It gives no priority to those who do not
get an adequate service today. Under Labor’s plan Australians will be waiting up to eight years before
they see a change.
The monopoly they talk of is only in the wholesale side completely different to the current Telstra situation. Under their plan they want to keep the DSL and HFC networks. This is a bigger monopoly with Telstra owning the network and customers on a lot of the DSL network and Telstra and Optus owning all of the customers on the HFC network.
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Through these actions the Coalition will deliver uniform nationwide availability of high-speed
broadband so that by 2016 Australia achieves a national broadband baseline with 97 percent
of premises able to be served by high-speed networks, using a combination of technologies
including DSL, fixed wireless and other technologies such as Hybrid Fibre-Coaxial (HFC). We
will ensure that all such premises, wherever they are in Australia, are able to receive services at
prices comparable to those for similar services in metropolitan areas.
The old technologies that they are talking of here all suffer from bandwidth problems, the more using these old technologies the more congested and slow it becomes. Fibre Optics does not suffer from this if it is FTTH (Fibre To The Home).
They also talk of a uniform cost between rural and city. They are going to do this by giving taxpayers money forever to these internet providers to lower the cost in the rural areas. Good deal, hey.
At the Murray Darling management public meeting in Griffith on the draft plan for the rationing of the flow down the river network.
Minister for the Environment and Water Tony Burke was jeered.
Tony Abbott the opposition leader was cheered by the irrigators when he took their side.
I wonder if Abbott will go to South Australia and say the same thing.
Here is an article in the "Adelaide Now" newspaper. An article by political editor Malcolm Farr.
Take note of the comments.
Has Abbott got the guts to say the same thing in South Australia?
I came across this website on debunking the FUD (Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt) on the NBN.
FUD is what, unfortunately, Malcolm Turnbull is all about when talking on the NBN.
He is a lot better than this, but he obviously has to do the bidding of the attack dog, technological Neanderthal boss of his. Malcolm's Myths
Which is incredible really, selling a dog that you know is infested with fleas and hasn’t been neutered and doesn’t carry a chip, and won’t go on a lead, and barks all night. But that is what TA has Turnbull doing. So let me get this straight. The Libs, through Turnbull, are complaining about a lack of competition in the NBN rollout, because the major supplier is acting like a monopoly supplier in terms of actually delivering infrastructure more cheaply than the private sector competitors can. Not that they are charging like a monopoly supplier, in fact sometimes not charging at all for greenfield sites, but that they are effecting efficiencies that can only accrue to a government backed monopolistic supplier of crucial national infrastructure. Because some supremely efficient private sector suppliers can’t do it for the same price, and this means that if they did all the supplying we might actually get, I don’t know, the cheapest possible way to roll-out some nation building infrastructure. Sorry, what was the problem again, apart from it possibly being against some laws which even in the prosecuting fall over from the ridiculousness test? Hold on, if the NBN roll all this out, it might lead to the NBN actually being really valuable, possibly even multiples of the costs in setting it up. This is an outrage, Sir. Whoever those NBN fatcat shareholders are should be ashamed of their good fortune. Why isn’t the government doing this? D’oh!
