[LINK] Coalition's FttN network unlikely to start rolling out

[stephen at melbpc.org.au]

Kim and Jan write,

> > With the rollout at scale expected to start around early 2015, it 
> > could take NBN Co six years to roll the FttN out at 200 nodes a week
> 
> Gee, maybe it would have been better if Uncle Mal and Co had run an 
> engineering and business study before making their promises, too, eh?


He really doesn't get it.. journalists are people, and who would want
to report on their 3rd rate plans for Australia's digital environment?

Maybe journalists are just too depressed to treat his ideas seriously?


"Turnbull slams media over NBN"

"I have to say that by and large the standard of reporting of technology 
and broadband by the mainstream media has been woeful," Turnbull said.

AAP (Computerworld)18 November, 2013 12:18
http://www.arnnet.com.au/article/532077/turnbull_slams_media_over_nbn/


Communications Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has accused the mainstream media 
of letting down the Australian public by not being sufficiently interested 
in the National Broadband Network.

The Wentworth MP told an NBN industry forum in Sydney that "a combination 
of indolence and a lack of curiosity" rather than bias contributed to the 
"woeful" coverage of broadband.

"I have to say that by and large the standard of reporting of technology 
and broadband by the mainstream media has been woeful," he said.

"If the Australian public are misinformed about these issues, it was in 
large part a consequence of the unwillingness of the mainstream media to 
pay any attention to what is really going on in the industry."

There had been no interest in people who were hands on with the NBN and the 
mainstream media had "really, really let the country down", Mr Turnbull 
said.

His frank comments were in response to a question on whether he would 
release his blue book - public servant information provided to the incoming 
coalition government.

Mr Turnbull said it was important that public servant advice to ministers 
was frank and fearless.

"If every bit of written advice public servants gave ministers was 
published, journalists would have a field day," he said.

"It would be a field day for not very long because all the advice would 
then be given orally because there needs to be a degree of candour.

"What is relevant in terms of the NBN is getting the facts out there."



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