[LINK] ABC Inside Business - "Big Step Forward"

[Tom Koltai]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au 
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Rik Harris
> Sent: Sunday, 26 June 2011 11:16 PM
> To: Richard Chirgwin
> Cc: link at mailman.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] ABC Inside Business - "Big Step Forward"
> 
> 
> Actually, ownership of the lead-in conduits (lead-ins to 
> individual properties) will transfer to NBN Co as NBN Co uses 
> them (see 
> http://www.telstra.com.au/abouttelstra/media-centre/announceme
> nts/telstra-signs-nbn-definitive-agreements-2.xml).
> 
> regards,
> rik. [Telstra employee; not involved with NBN; all 
> information already in public domain]

So, the ownership of the copper that runs across the private land of the
subscriber, for which there is no right of way or lease arrangement with
the homeowner is now being sold to the NBN ?
Sorry... Can you quote the legislation that authorised this transaction
that would appear to overthrow and be an encroachment on the traditional
rights to use and homeowners title deed evidence of possession of
Australian homes ?
Surely if Australians have lost the right to a piece of their front
yards, they should be in some way be compensated?

Or does lead-in only cover the conduit and the first 300 mm of copper ?
In which case, I have a pile of copper wire and some pvc conduit I could
sell to the NBN for a lot cheaper than 4.5 billion.

I'm sorry folks, I don't actually see any forward momentum here.

I see money changing hands from Telstra to the Future Fund
>From the Future Fund to the NBN
>From the NBN to Telstra.

I don't see any valuable assets like Cable (that can deliver high speed
broadband today) changing hands. I see the USO obligation to maintain
the copper slipping away... (resulting in a scenario that Americans are
all too familiar with... "Sorry, the piece of Copper from the Kerb to
the property line is all we look after, You'll have to call your local
Clec for the section from the Kerb to the Central Office. Unless you
have your long distance with us, in which case we can send out a
technician, but if he finds that the fault isn't on our local CLEC's
segment you could be up for an additional cost. Would that be okay with
you sir ?"

In the major streets of Budapest, one can find Men with empty cardboard
boxes on which sit three half wall nut shells and a pea.

This NBN game is starting to look a lot like those colourful Gypsy
characters in Budapest. In Hungary, the Rendorseg [police] pretty much
shut down these games whenever they become glaringly obvious. I would
like to know who is their equivalent in Australia ?

TomK