[LINK] Customers may be forced on to NBN to keep phones
Kim Holburn
kim at holburn.net
Tue Oct 12 13:48:37 AEDT 2010
If you want a connection to the internet or telephone you are forced
to get a connection. So? This is a big deal? You can still opt for
wireless if you are game.
On 2010/Oct/12, at 12:51 PM, Max Devlin wrote:
> On 12/10/2010, Richard Chirgwin <rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au> wrote:
>
>> As to DSL - eg, "Naked" plans - it's a change of retail / wholesale
>> relationship. You're still "forced" to connect to Telstra's copper
>> to do
>
> Except that hyour not "forced" to do anything except exercise a choice
> to have an already existing copper wire connected to someone other
> than telstra at the exchange.
It's still Telstra copper and Telstra gets paid and services the
copper (albeit grudgingly if you don't have a phone connection through
them). Until recently no-one else was allowed to put copper to your
home. The copper is there as a result of an evil Government monopoly.
If you have copper to your house it's because someone at some time
exercised the same choice: have the government monopoly put in copper
to your house or don't have a phone.
> The point about fibre is that you might be forced to have/pay for it
> laid across your land whether you want NBN style broadband or not.
Bit of a stretch there.
> And 55pc of Tasmanians given the chance refused to sign up.
So? To pay for the hard bits everyone has to help. As Australians we
have these two options:
1) We all co-operate and work together so all Australians (or nearly
all) can get connected ie Government monopoly infrastructure;
or
2) we do some kind of free market infrastructure - result, many
Australians won't get connected, some will have more than one
connection. No-one will get much more than a few Mb/sec. We have
that already, except we are living with the after-effects of a
previous Government monopoly on copper. Anyone who has lived in more
densely populated countries will know how much better broadband is
there.
> And now your being told that even if you choose not to have NBN fibre
> you are still "forced" to have it laid if you want a phone.
Well, landline, yes. And the problem is?
> I haven't heard that before. I vote no!
We live in hope. Since you are probably connecting to the internet
via a system that was or is at least in part a Government monopoly you
could just say "no" right now.
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