[LINK] NBN Rollout in Tasmania: Next Phase

[Marghanita da Cruz]

Ross Kelso wrote:
> In Link Digest, Vol 222, Issue 13 on 5 May 2011, David Lochrin said:
> 
> <snip>
> QUOTE:
> Windsor staked his political future on Labor?s successful implementation of the National Broadband Network, saying in his post election address that you "do it once, and do it with fibre". ?He has been panned time and again for being computer illiterate himself and for having been hoodwinked by the ALP.
> 
> But lo and behold, yesterday The Land reported that the town of Armidale had an 89 per cent take-up rate for the NBN, and would be the first in mainland Australia to receive the roll-out. ?One wonders whether any politician understands his electorate this well and can deliver on promises so comprehensively.
> UNQUOTE
> 
> How about that - a takeup rate of 89%...!  though at this stage that would mean connection takeup, not actual use. ?
> <snip>
> 
> # My understanding is that any so-called '89 per cent take-up rate for the NBN' means those properties have agreed to a passive NBN connection; from Tasmanian experience the actual sign-up to an ISP service would be much less, even though in the tassie case the retail rates were artifically low as NBN Co were not charging the long-term wholesale rate.  I understand the lower initial rates are also to apply in Armidale.
> 
> # As to the adage attributed to Tony Windsor MP, it should instead read: "You do it once, you do it right, you do it fibre BUT you
> install in underground".  From my own onsite inspection, Armidale is being 'blessed' with overhead fibre cabling in streets where Telstra's CAN is underground - so much for creating infrastructure of the future!
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> Ross Kelso, PhD
> http://www.rosskelso.com
> http://www.noaerialnbn.org
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My understanding of these pilot sites is that they are being
used to learn how to do the NBN. Tassie was underground,
Townsville Aerial, Wollongong underground, Geraldton
underground(?) and apparently Armidale (Aerial).

While, Tony Windsor, has been one of the gems to emerge from
the last election, it is worth noting that it was Barnaby
Joyce's filler busting double act with Christine Milne's
interrogation of then Climate Change minister, Penny Wong,
in the CPRS debate late 2010, that saw the rise of Julia
Guillard.

Putting Armidale on the list of trial sites, has to be an
achievement on Tony Windsor's part - though he will no
doubt be aware that it isn't the cable, but what
passes through the cable that will get him re-elected.

Note he is no newbie...
> Tony successfully stood as an Independent Candidate for the Electorate of Tamworth at the New South Wales General Election in May 1991. 
...
> In October 2001 Tony resigned from the NSW Parliament to contest the Federal seat of New England.  He was elected as the Independent Member for New England on 10 November 2001, 

<http://www.tonywindsor.com.au/abouttw.html>

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