[LINK] Turnbull's NBN

[Jan Whitaker]

At 11:33 AM 13/04/2013, David Boxall wrote:

>Six months after the election: "Good heavens, this is all going to cost
>quintillions. Let's see whether one of our nice mates in business will
>take it off our hands."
>
>Designed to fail.

Pity KRudd didn't mention that in his twitter battle:


Wannabes in Twitter skirmish

Deborah Gough
Published: April 13, 2013 - 3:50PM

Would-be leaders Malcolm Turnbull and Kevin Rudd 
had a Twitter skirmish on Saturday in the battle 
of the broadband policies for their respective parties.

It started on Friday when @KRuddMP tweeted about 
living five kilometre from Brisbane: "Under 
Abbott, much of my community gets zero upgrade".

By 10am on Saturday, @TurnbullMalcolm took him to 
task: "@KRuddMP not correct Our plan will improve 
your area's bband speeds by taking it from adsl 
to vdsl most wd have 50 megs - 25 is the 
minimum." (Translation better speeds are 
achievable by changing the digital line type).

Then it was on – tweet-for-tweet – between the 
two MPs and a third party, the anonymous tweeter @geeksrulz.

@geeksrulz chimed in at 10.18am with: 
"@TurnbullMalcolm Your 25 to 50 are not 
achievable over 5kms from exchange via copper @KRuddMP."

In a retaliatory missive, the Opposition 
communication's spokesman, Mr Turnbull replied at 
10.22am: "@geeksrulz @kruddmp 25 is the minimum. 
vdsl fttn (fibre to the node) delivers much higher speeds for most customers."

Then Mr Turnbull reloaded at 11.16am: "@geeksrulz 
@kruddmp of course. That's why you take the fibre 
further into field and so reduce cu (copper) length considerably."

Mr Rudd, the former prime minister, got back into 
the fray at 11.37am: "@TurnbullMalcolm Hi 
Malcolm. Mate, so for 75% our cost, you get 25% 
the speed, a $5k hit per household, and its up a year before ours?"

Then he fired again at 12.04pm: "@TurnbullMalcolm 
Malcolm, if it looks like a sloth, moves like 
sloth, it probably is a sloth of a policy. I like sloths. But not for BB."

Firing back, Mr Turnbull replied at 12.13: 
"@KRuddMP a sloth wd be ashamed by your NBN 
project which after four years hasn't even 
managed to activate 20,000 premises."

Stand-up comedian and cartoonist Jason Chatfield 
got the last word: "Thanks for giving us 
cartoonists some material for tomorrow. Cheers."

This story was found at: 
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/wannabes-in-twitter-skirmish-20130413-2hs1s.html 





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