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FTTN already exists, we dont need to build another network, all cable TV hubs have spare fibres, and most hubs are within the last mile, Telstra shareholders just won't sell the bandwidth at reasonable cost, so we have to waste billions rebuilding it all. Its a croc of crap the whole thing, 250 million to get streaming audio and video to the backhaul blackspots, so **** can access free porn ??? what a bloody joke, govt should force Telstra to bite the wholesale bullet and sell the bandwidth.
Anon - if you read the article you will find that he not opposing the NBN. He is stating that a large percentage of the NBN may be overhead cables as opposed to underground. This is as a result of statements from Conroy.
As a result Michin is doing his job.
I bet Conroys house/street won't have any unsightly overhead cabling.
Hey, if hanging the cable in the air will get it done quicker and cheaper, i think it's a fair trade. We'v already got phone and power lines everywhere so it wont make much difference to the looks.
What's the bet that they do the streets with the overhead electricity first (and cable and often adsl too) because its easier. Then the project stalls because they run out of money so no-one with underground electricity (nor cable and often not adsl either) see the benefits.
Sound familiar?
It's quite obvious that they will probably run the cables overhead where existing power/telephone cables are overhead and underground in areas where all existing cabling is underground. Either way this is a non-issue as the new cables will be unnoticable amongst the existing cables, whichever way they do it.
If this is Nick Minchin's actual opinion, then the man is a moronic fool that has no place representing anything let alone anybody in Australia. The last time these criminally inept, unqualified idiots interfered in the establishment of modern telecommunications infrastructure in Australia, they killed the very solution that would have solved the problem we now have, 15 years ago. Multinational companies supported by a massive local manufacturing industry were poised to roll out hybrid fiber optic (yes fiber optic) infrastructure across the length and breadth of Australia before 1995. Every city, town and village on this continent would have access to 300Mbps or greater broadband speeds, but instead, these buffoons from both sides of government issued illegal pay TV monopolies to Foxtel and Austar that sucked 80% of the cashflow from cable TV as it was then. Small minds that fell for the government swindle, hook line and sinker, focused on the overhead cables (like there were not already 25 up there already) and a multi billion dollar industry that would have then and today would employ tens of thousands of people was extinguished. Why? Because both sides of government were only interested in money, at that moment, no matter how many millions of Australians were screwed in the process.
Now we are spending more billions to fix the problem that both sides of government caused and its chance of success is zero.
By all means criticize the lie that the NBN is, but for goodness sake it’s not about bloody overhead cables it’s about the RIGHT that every Australian has to access to modern, efficient and competitive telecommunications infrastructure,
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Is anyone getting tired of Nick Minchin opposing anything and everything reltated to the NBN. People actually elected this man to represent them, not his own personal interests. He has consistently opposed everything related to the NBN. Of course the right thing to do in opposition is question government policy and ideals. However Mr Minchin keeps opposing and trying to block the NBN at every turn.