Pity we will never see this

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[pheggie]

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Doh, as if this was not going to happen

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[SpankedHam]

My interpretation is that, like most of Australia, Telstra prefers a model with a clear FttP end result.

IIRC in 2003 Telstra considered and publicly stated that its telephone lines are be '5 minutes to midnight' and should be entirely replaced with fibre by 2018. This inspired the disastrous 'seal the CAN' project, which was intended to stabilise and seal the cable ends with a view to never doing any repairs ever again, but resulted in considerably accelerated failure rates for many cables due to direct chemical as well as biological reactions.

Telstra's telephone lines only suddenly became 'perfectly OK' when the Liberal party started talking up FTTN as a counter to FTTP prior to the federal election.

[allover]

Telstra's telephone lines only suddenly became 'perfectly OK' when the Liberal party started talking up FTTN as a counter to FTTP prior to the federal election.
Think it may have been the party prior to Liberals

[Al Bundy]

....Think it may have been the party prior to Liberals

No Labor's plan was FTTP (Fibre to the Premises) or if you prefer FTTH (Fibre to the Home) the copper network was to be shut down.

Liberal (Turnbull) decided that FTTN (Fibre to the Node) and then use the copper from the node to your home was a better way to go and cheaper.

[SpankedHam]

Prior to the election Labor had gone to Australia's telcos for proposals as to how best provide decent broadband to Australians after ditching the Liberal's OPEL which itself was a poorman's answer to Labor's prior attempt at improving the lot for Australian's access to broadband. This was during Sol's term at Telstra. Telstra's brief response - you [the government] pay for it, we [Telstra] own it, and we charge what we like for access, limited fibre in metro + ADSL2+ for everyone else plan - saw a bitter split between Telstra and the government with the government proposing the original FTTP NBN.

In a not too convoluted way of thinking to see the spider sitting at the middle of this messy web we find ourselves in is and always has been Telstra. Labor, Liberal, doesn't matter, they are just flies caught in the web trying to find a way off. Who benefits most from the current situation? Any guesses? Yes, that's right, Telstra.

Either way, for a long long time Labor has had a clear policy of trying to improve the lot of Australians when it comes to broadband access, whilst the Liberal party's policy is clearly to not have a policy and but for the extreme popularity of Labors proposals over the years wouldn't be doing anything at all. NBN prior to the election had a 75% approval rating in polling. That's even more popular than Howard's Baby Bonus where the government more or less threw money up in the air for everyone to grab.

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Oh things are not looking too good, so much for Malcolm saving the day!

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There's no stopping me

[admin]

There's no stopping me

Click click, boom.

Maybe you could post some of the positive news as well, ie , areas being fast tracked, the improved speed of the rollout in the last year etc etc.

This was pretty much a pointless and mostly off topic at the best of times thread, that was left to run its course and die because it provided nothing to the reader other than endless boohooing and negativity. As nothing changed from a balance perspective, the thread is closed. Feel free to post a new thread if you want to provide something a bit better.