[LINK] What I don't like about Murdoch's NBN

[Frank O'Connor]

Personally I don't think even Murdoch would be interested in acquiring this turkey.

Foxtel already owns/runs its own HFC network, which is probably an order of magnitude more reliable than the Turnbull NBN, and can carry pretty much the same or better average bandwidth (supposed to be up to 20-30Mbs now isn't it?), his satellite service offers about the same functionality and scalability that is being planned for the NBN's satellite coverage, and he's already established in the core high take-up locations that he wants.

Both technologically and market wise, Turnbull's NBN offers nothing to him.

(Other than stymieing the general public's access to and ambitions for ubiquitous high speed broadband, that would make Rupert's current offerings less than palatable to prospective consumers I mean ... simply by existing it ensures that Foxtel and its HFC network remain valid competitors for cable TV subscribers. Maybe that's the plan ... to keep Rupert's dying business model alive for a few more years by providing an NBN that's not really an NBN.)

Just my 2 cents worth ...
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On 23/04/2013, at 8:37 PM, Craig Sanders <cas at taz.net.au> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 06:49:57PM +1000, Frank O'Connor wrote:
> 
>> 9. Has little in the way of vision or imagination ... what we'll be
>> getting is pretty much the same as we've got now, but some people will
>> have up to twice the speed the currently get.
> 
> this is a major point that is mostly ignored. it has been pointed out
> several times that Liberal's version of NBN is about 70% of the cost of
> Labor's NBN for (being generous) about 5% of the performance.
> 
> what hasn't been noticed is that it's 70% of the cost of Labor's NBN to
> get something that's about the same as what we have now. it's throwing
> money away for little or no benefit.
> 
> Liberal's NBN isn't worth *anything*, but they want to waste $29 billion
> or so on it.
> 
> and that $29B does not include replacing the aging and degraded copper
> in the ground so that customers can actually get something like the
> 25-50Mbps promised.  Most of those lines can't do full-speed ADSL1 or
> ADSL2 now, they're certainly not going to be good enough for VDSL.
> 
> 
> it's not just lack of vision or even technical incompetence - it's
> an outright lie. they know it can't work, there's no way they could
> possibly not know that. it's Liberal policy because it's the policy that
> Murdoch wants them to have. and it will, no doubt, be sold at a massive
> loss to Murdoch in a few years time....my prediction: at best, 5-10% of
> the build cost - and the timing will be only a few years early for it to
> be a very generous 90th birthday present from the australian people to
> our very own evil overlord of the fourth estate.
> 
> craig
> 
> (from now on, i'm going to try never to refer to it as Liberal's NBN or
> Turnbull's NBN - the correct name is Murdoch's NBN)
> 
> -- 
> craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>
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