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Under Barnaby Joyce the Nationals are dying a slow death – » The Australian Independent Media Network

My thought for the day On the NBN: The problem with designing a network to meet the needs of yesterday is that it denies you the ability to meet the needs of tomorrow. ( John Lord )

Source: Under Barnaby Joyce the Nationals are dying a slow death – » The Australian Independent Media Network

LNP, LNP Economic Management, LNP Government

Five years on, Snowy 2.0 emerges as a $10 billion white elephant

Snowy Hydro 2.0 ... it’s an uphill climb for the water pumped from the the Talbingo Reservoir. Three life-size white elephant statues in Royal Flora Expo in Chiang Mai Thailand Stock Photo - Alamy

The LNP delivering yet another FAILURE. A Herd of White Elephants,

The nation-building vision was for a big battery to be added to the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme. It was to be completed in four years (that is, by last year) at a cost of $2 billion without any taxpayer subsidy, bring down electricity prices, generate renewable energy and incur minimal environmental impact on Kosciuszko National Park. Inspiring stuff. But not one of these grand claims has turned out to be true. Worse, Australian taxpayers and NSW electricity consumers will be up for billions of dollars in subsidies and increased electricity costs, all while Kosciuszko is trashed. Let’s have a quick recap.

Source: Five years on, Snowy 2.0 emerges as a $10 billion white elephant

LNP, LNP Government

Government advised to accept ‘sunk’ NBN costs

Remember the LNP and the “no interference in the “free market”. Now they expect us to pay for their mistakes. It’s called a INDIRECT SNEAK TAX don’t you think?

The Government has ordered NBN Co to recoup all of those losses through the subscription prices to the users. In the end, the NBN users are paying for party politicking that has been taking place over the last decade.

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman Rod Sims has mentioned during a recent Senate Inquiry that it would be “bad economics” to seek to recover “every last dollar spent” on the rollout of the National Broadband Network.

He clarified:

“Obviously, the NBN was built by the Government and now that it’s built, I think it’s appropriate to treat its costs as sunk — what matters for Australia is getting the best use out of the NBN.”

 

Source: Government advised to accept ‘sunk’ NBN costs

LNP, LNP Economic Management, LNP Government, LNP Tactics

Secret figures reveal Coalition’s cut-down NBN tech three times more expensive than forecast | National broadband network (NBN) | The Guardian

Malcolm Turnbull at a national broadband network photo opportunity in 2016

Thanks Tony Abbott you legacy of putting the brakes on Australia with your “Nope Nope Nope” policy approach now “Slow Slow Slow” govenments don’t do progress style maintained by Scott Morrison is coming into relief and the skidmarks self evident. Climate, the NBN, the ABC, Welfare, Health, Education are just among some areas spiralling down since 2013. Yet, domestically the fix is still in with Murdoch and Ch9 domestically blowing smoke declaring us great and going in the right direction. Is it any wonder Morrison hates going overseas because when he does that fake greatness is laid bare for all to see. We were lauded and admired the 2nd best economy on the planet during and post GFC, and then in 2013 along came the L fucking NP and put an end to that progress felt by all Australians.

The technology in the Coalition’s cut-down version of the NBN cost up to three times more than originally forecast and was closer to the initial estimated cost of a revised version of Labor’s full-fibre plan, according to figures the government has sought to keep secret for almost a decade.

Source: Secret figures reveal Coalition’s cut-down NBN tech three times more expensive than forecast | National broadband network (NBN) | The Guardian

LNP Corruption, LNP Government, NBN

Government still holding Australia back in global broadband ranking

Abbott told us FIBRE wasn’t NEEDED in his NOPE NOPE NOPE campaign and handed TURNBULL the poison chalice to put it in place so he wouldn’t be blamed neat politics, hey! However, a fucked up government service to Australia

Australia has a fibre penetration of just 21.7% out of a total of 9.1 million broadband subscriptions at 25th position, below the OECD average of 30.56% fibre penetration. If NBN Co’s 900K FTTC lines were defined as fibre, that percentage would rise to nearly 32% and 18th position. New Zealand fared much better, posting a 60.1% fibre penetration rate and 8th position. Austria, Belgium, Chile, Ireland, Israel and the United Kingdom all increased their fibre connections by more than 50% in 2020. In more and more OECD countries, most broadband connections are now fibre, with the share of fibre in total broadband above 50% in Finland, Iceland, Luxembourg, New Zealand, Norway and Portugal, exceeding 70% in Japan, Korea, Latvia, Lithuania, Spain and Sweden.

Source: Government still holding Australia back in global broadband ranking

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Concerns about NBN overuse highlight Coalition Government’s failings

Many long-term issues plaguing the NBN could’ve been avoided if it was an all-fibre network, writes Paul Budde. RECENTLY, IT was reported that a new Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) Commissioner, Anna Brakey, said: We’ve got an opportunity to have a look at the regulatory framework and to make sure, that we efficiently use the NBN. If we set prices too low, there would be overuse of the NBN. And as a result, that would require more investment that just would not be efficient. It would not be valued by people because we priced it too low in the first place. But if we set the price too high, there will be underuse of the asset and potentially bypass. So, without a doubt, I think, getting the NBN regulatory framework, giving that attention and coming up with a new [special access undertaking] or revised SAU, is by far my biggest priority for this year. It’s astonishing to hear from the ACCC that they think that the “NBN could be overused” and that “customers would not value it anymore”. The ACCC is mandated to act on behalf of the consumers, not the NBN company. The fact that she is in favour of protecting the NBN in the knowledge o

Source: Concerns about NBN overuse highlight Coalition Government’s failings

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Further problems with NBN as executives paid $77 million in bonuses

As the NBN rollout continues to suffer from complaints and budget overruns, NBN Co executives have paid themselves millions of dollars in bonuses, writes Paul Budde.

Source: Further problems with NBN as executives paid $77 million in bonuses

LNP, LNP Corruption, LNP Government, LNP Tactics

Australian Government falling behind on world broadband scale
Abbott’s complete Political Fuck up

The Australian Government has been stalling in our nation’s broadband progress, especially when compared to other countries, writes Paul Budde.

Australian Government falling behind on world broadband scale
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Coalition’s NBN bungle may have cost the country billions

The Coalition could have saved the country billions if it had stuck to Labor’s original NBN plans and adjusted them with new technologies, Paul Budde reports.

Coalition’s NBN bungle may have cost the country billions
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NBN battle between the ACCC and the Government

In my opinion, what this means is that the Government would like the ACCC to facilitate NBN Co to increase their prices. I will come back to this in a bit more detail. But in essence, the Government would like to create a better financial position for the NBN to put it up for sale. The alternative I have advocated now for many years is to write down some of the NBN costs.

NBN battle between the ACCC and the Government
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Coalition to announce $3.5bn NBN upgrade to roll out fibre ‘deeper and closer to homes’ | Technology | The Guardian
File photo of contractors working on the rollout of the NBN network in 2017
Abbott’s Legacy Australia

“This has meant Australian taxpayers have paid more for a network that does less, and more money is now required to play catch up,” she said in a statement issued on Tuesday. “What on earth was the point of spending $51bn of taxpayers’ dollars on the Liberals’ second-rate copper network to begin with?” In 2018, the outgoing chief executive of NBN Co, Bill Morrow, admitted that the reliance on copper had led to a higher fault rate and slower internet speeds but helped deliver the network faster and more cheaply.

Coalition to announce $3.5bn NBN upgrade to roll out fibre ‘deeper and closer to homes’ | Technology | The Guardian
Informed Comment

They built a disastrous NBN and now they think they can build a power station. Wow. – » The Australian Independent Media Network

If one day in the future our children wake to find our prosperity gravely ill. It will be because Australia’s conservative politicians during the years 2013 to 202? Didn’t believe the science of a changing climate and left you with the consequences.

They built a disastrous NBN and now they think they can build a power station. Wow. – » The Australian Independent Media Network
Informed Comment, LNP Government, Media

Regional Australia secures own digital success despite Coalition’s woeful NBN

Abbott’s legacy NBN. Trailer trashing regional areas but they won’t have a bar of it any longer. (ODT)

Communities are not going to sit and wait for what might or might not happen and regional towns know that they will not be first to get better broadband from NBN Co. Consequently, more and more cities will start developing their own plans in collaboration with their own state governments.

Unfortunately, this will mean overbuilding and wasting money, but with the Morrison Government – purely for party political reasons – stubbornly refusing to talk about fibre optic network, it is clear that many towns in Australia are not going to wait for the Federal Government to take a lead here. The economic and social future of their communities is simply too important to wait for politicians to finally get their act together on these issues.

via Regional Australia secures own digital success despite Coalition’s woeful NBN

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Coronavirus and the NBN: will your broadband be up to speed if you have to work from home? | Technology | The Guardian

A woman with a laptop on a sofa

The Coronavirus will Test the LNP NBN and those working from home (ODT)

via Coronavirus and the NBN: will your broadband be up to speed if you have to work from home? | Technology | The Guardian

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No action from Morrison Government as NBN continues downward trend

Morrison’s It’s all too much Australia pray! Frydenbergs resilient Nation is waiting for the NBN to kick in while the world passes by. (ODT)

No action from Morrison Government as NBN continues downward trend

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Government must step in to fix NBN

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NBN Still On Track For 2016 Completion, Government Says – The Shovel

 

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NBN Still On Track For 2016 Completion, Government Says – The Shovel

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How did the ‘clever country’ end up with a $90 billion botched NBN? – Michael West

How did the ‘clever country’ end up with a $90 billion botched NBN?

via How did the ‘clever country’ end up with a $90 billion botched NBN? – Michael West

ABC, NBN

EDITORIAL EXCERPT: Undermining the NBN and ABC

This Government is intent on undermining our public institutions. And nowhere is this more evident than with the ABC and NBN.

Source: EDITORIAL EXCERPT: Undermining the NBN and ABC

Tony Abbott

Goodbye Bill Morrow, the NBN Nero, who fiddled and raged as it buffered

The Tony Abbott Mr Nope Nope Nope Legacy

With complaints about the NBN’s shonky and inadequate service at an all-time high, and after having made compromises that have “rolled his stomach”, NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow has decided to jump this sinking ship two years before the project’s completion.

Morrow’s tenure in charge of the operation has – to say the least – being turbulent, with the belligerent American being happy to defame and disparage his critics — so long as it’s under the cloak of Parliamentary privilege. Former Internet Australia boss Laurie Patton recalls one such occasion.

via Goodbye Bill Morrow, the NBN Nero, who fiddled and raged as it buffered

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Turnbull Hits Back At Criticism Of His Home’s NBN Connection: “14 Of The Bedrooms Don’t Have Internet Connectivity At All!” – The Shovel

Responding to reports that his harbour-side mansion had been specially connected to high-speed NBN, Malcolm Turnbull today pointed out that more than a dozen bedrooms, and at least one of the kitchens, are without internet connection altogether.

Asked what his message was to Australians who were still waiting for the NBN while he enjoyed a 100mbps plan, Mr Turnbull said, “I know how they feel”.

“There’s nothing more frustrating than ducking off to the butler’s quarters to get some work done, and then remembering that the new wi-fi doesn’t reach that far yet. So yep, I get it”.

Responding to a question from a small business owner who said he couldn’t download the files he needed run his office, Mr Turnbull said, “Have you tried the third study? I find the reception is often better there. Or, at a pinch, you could always go down to the entertainment room”.

via Turnbull Hits Back At Criticism Of His Home’s NBN Connection: “14 Of The Bedrooms Don’t Have Internet Connectivity At All!” – The Shovel

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With rapidly evaporating respect Mr Turnbull, that’s crap – » The Australian Independent Media Network

With rapidly evaporating respect Mr Turnbull, that’s crap. The rest of the world is moving to fibre whilst you have made us a communications backwater, ranking 50th in the world behind places like Thailand, Estonia, Bulgaria and Kenya. With rapidly evaporating respect Mr Turnbull, that’s crap – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Informed Comment

Instead of moving mountains, just build us a real NBN – » The Australian Independent Media Network

I am having trouble understanding this energy debate. For starters, we own the resources and we make the rules.  Remembering that would be a good first step. Secondly, it is glaringly obvious that privatisation has not worked to keep retail prices down.  The bastards won’t even turn the generators on unless they get paid enough.…

Source: Instead of moving mountains, just build us a real NBN – » The Australian Independent Media Network

Humour

Australia Has Faster Internet Than Equatorial Guinea, Turnbull Reassures Nation – The Shovel

Source: Australia Has Faster Internet Than Equatorial Guinea, Turnbull Reassures Nation – The Shovel

Tony Abbott

NBN Co downplays report showing Australia lagging on internet speed | Technology | The Guardian

Benchmark Akamai report ranks Australia 50 globally on average connection speed and 57th on peak connection speed

Source: NBN Co downplays report showing Australia lagging on internet speed | Technology | The Guardian

ABC

FALSE BALANCE: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil… The Debate The ABC Has To Have – New Matilda

The silence around the Nick Ross-Bruce Belsham revelations is deafening. Chris Graham weighs in. As I write this, it’s now 72 hours since New Matilda revealed that in the lead-up to the 2013 federal election, the Head of Current Affairs at the ABC, Bruce Belsham directed Tech editor Nick Ross to find a story –More

Source: FALSE BALANCE: See No Evil, Hear No Evil, Speak No Evil… The Debate The ABC Has To Have – New Matilda

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Report Ranking Internet Speeds By Country Almost Downloaded, Turnbull Says
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By on August 6, 2015

A report that ranks countries according to their broadband speed is 57% downloaded, Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull confirmed today.

Mr Turnbull said he would share the results with the rest of the nation as soon as the report had downloaded. “I’m really looking forward to seeing where Australia is on the list. I’ll just pop the kettle on and then we’ll have a look,” he said.

He then suggested it might be easier to just send it on later once it’s ready. “It’s still not quite there. How about I email it around to everyone tonight, then you can start downloading it and have it ready for tomorrow morning,” he said.

The full list of countries, ranked by internet speed, is available here.

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Deliberate dismantling of Australia’s Communications systems is a transparent campaign to deliver Rupert Murdoch a monopoly. Not a National Broad Band

Malcolm Turnbull’s NNBN (NOT National Broadband Network)

I THOUGHT I DID THE RESEARCH before making the “tree change” decision to move to North Eastern Tassie. The perky Telstra salesperson, desperate to sell me an internet package. “NBN isn’t coming to your area.”

“Uh, no. There are areas where the NBN isn’t yet but will be, but your area isn’t one of them.”

“So, you’re telling me that we can’t ever be connected to the NBN?”

“Yes.” A moment’s pause, then the salesperson perked up. “I can sell you a mobile wireless package though.”

“You mean the wireless card? There’s no mobile phone coverage in this town, won’t I need that for a wireless card thingy?”

“Oh, um….let me just check with my supervisor.”

There was now music in my ear.

After a lengthy pause, she returned. Her voice was distinctly less hopeful. “No, wireless isn’t appropriate. We can offer you dial-up.”

Prime Minister Abbott may think the internet is just a fad and, indeed, he is on record as saying the NBN is “essentially a video entertainment system” and that “25 megs is going to be enough, more than enough, for the average household”. However, whatever his idiosyncratic personal views, the reality is that Australians increasingly rely on high speed access to the internet — not only for leisure, but also for work.

Emails, job search websites like SEEK, distance learning, Centrelink and so on are all online necessities, not luxuries.

To add insult to injury, last week it was revealed that ABC2 may be taken off free-to-air on our National Broadcaster and put on iView. I’m sure my three year old daughter will as delighted to hear that Peppa Pig will now only be available to her by piracy or DVD in the future as I am that I won’t be able to watch excellent satirical programme The Roast anymore.

The Coalition government has consistently and deliberately misled Australian voters and taxpayers in the area of Communications since September 2013, slashing services they vowed personally to preserve.

I will be officially complaining to the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman about the false advertising by satellite providers who cannot provide the service promised.

I fervently hope there will be a Federal ICAC into the deliberate dismantling of Australia’s Communications systems in a transparent campaign to deliver Rupert Murdoch a monopoly.