Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says he hopes the appointment of Malcolm Turnbull as communications spokesman will help convince key independent MPs to dump Labor and switch sides.

Mr Abbott is foreshadowing his tactics for the coming months after yesterday revealing a frontbench line-up which he described as "hungry" to hold the minority Government to account.

He has flagged the Government's broadband policy - one of the areas crucial in swinging at least one independent towards supporting Labor - as a major battleground over the next 18 months.

Mr Turnbull has now been brought back to the frontbench as communications spokesman and has been told by Mr Abbott to "demolish" Labor's broadband policy.

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As my super-rich friend, Goldbert, says: "Why drive an expensive Merc when you can go from A to B in a clapped-out gas-guzzling Kingswood..." His other five cars including the Maserati are only for display in the garage...

Once again I believe that the Murdoch media will have a significant effect on the public perception of the absolute need for the Labor Party's National Broadband.  It is progress without foreign ownership.

It seems to me that Malcolm the "turnBull" will use his substantial financial expertise - when being CEO Australia for Goldman Sacks - to confuse the public as to the value of the network for all Australians. Don't invest for youselves, sell it to foreigners - they need the profit.

His policy will be on the Joe Hockey line of wasted money and debt etc, etc. An MSM supported and unsubstantiated lie that has continued unabated even after the Rudd government proved that its financial stimulus saved so many Australians from recession and unemployment – that is still disputed by the Corporation’s Coalition even against the best financial advice available in the world.

So Malcolm will have to bring out his most effective Court skills but, he will not have a Court with Court flexibility to use for effect.  He will have to use the most corrupt provider of “opinions” in contemporary Australia – the Murdoch Media Empire.

And his objective will be to push for private enterprise to take over some if not all of the costs which we would be saddled with to pay for as long as we did to Dorman and Long who built the Harbour Bridge.  Infinite foreign debt - who owns us Costello?

IMHO, too many of our Federal governments have acted only in trying to fortify their next election rather than the next generation.  I can remember at least two Labor governments that tried to overcome that hiatus – Gough Whitlam and Kevin Rudd’s Labor governments.

As a result of the Conservative policies of NOT investing taxpayer funds to improve our infrastructure that we would own, and handing it over to private enterprise for the objective of making them a profit as an investment, the term of office of the Howard “New Order” government wasted enormous funds supplied by the resources boom and had nothing to show for it.

Bring it on Malcolm, your fellow Zionist Rupert Murdoch is right behind you.

But Abbott should remember that history warns us of the situation faced by “Ming the merciless” Menzies when Garfield Barwick was poised to challenge his leadership – Menzies promoted him to Chief Justice – nice? 

And he also promoted a dying General Blamey to the position of Australia’s first Field Marshall.  Nice?  Since the same clown who called our undertrained “Chockos” of the the Kokoda trail as cowards - must have known something that Menzies wanted to forget – nice?

Watch your back Tony, now YOU are the target you so desperately loved to attack without just cause, and with a no lose situation of parliamentary bastardry.  NE OUBLIE. 

 

 

On the 15th of September 2010, Abbott flagged his uncosted and multi moulded Broadband policy and anointed Malcolm turnBull as the "destroyer".  These are the words of a changed rabid attack dog?

On the 18th of September 2010, the yapping poodle announced that the Liberals will probably alter their policy explaining that "events change".  At the same time he was calling for the Government to declare its costing along with its already publicised program.  All this "motor mouth" is only doing what the Corporation's do best - accuse without proof but - make them defend one concocted charge and then another and then another. Fair dinkum.

So we now have the same situation - undoubtedly designed and promulgated by Murdoch - which that tabloid used so ruthlessly against the Rudd/Gillard “honesty approach” during the one-sided election campaign.

I believe that Kevin Rudd was just too intelligent for the media and that is why they blocked his attempts to reach the Australian people. He thought honesty was enough.

So what now Murdoch and your associates at ABC?

The public are already aware of the disruptive intentions of the not so re-vamped gutter-snipe Abbott and his Menzies’s style attempt to neutralise Malcolm Turnbull – so what now?

Where will we voters be able to read, view or even listen to information that has not been tainted by the abuse of media freedom?  Which way will Murdoch and the ABC go with the independents who Abbott has already said he will change to his side? He will? Or more likely Murdoch will.

Murdoch has been the primary cause of the false appearance of Abbott as an honourable minister for the working class. So IMHO, Murdoch will start and build on a policy of ridicule and incompetence on the two independents that have performed their duty according to their consciences and as such “have had a falling out with Murdoch”. What an "all is lost" statement by a Murdoch moron on the Liberal show "Insiders"?

The Greens have already tasted the bitter brew that Murdoch has forced  them to defend, and while I do not agree with all of their policies, I admire their ability to withstand the ruthless abuse of media freedom by the Murdoch Empire.

So if we want our faltering democracy to survive the Murdoch take-over, we have no alternative but to support the Labor Party; the Greens and most of all – the independents.

On the latter falls the greatest burden of all.  WHO does elect our governments?  NE OUBLIE.

 

 

One of Australia's leading online entrepreneurs has questioned the government's sums on the national broadband network (NBN), saying the return on investment just doesn't add up.

Wotif founder Graeme Wood, who opened the 21st World Computer Congress in Brisbane on Monday, says the $43 billion NBN is great for business and education.

But he's questioned the need for such high speeds for private use.

"I think it's a brilliant thing for business but where's the analysis to say the investment is worth it for non-business users (or) private use," Mr Wood said.

"If all you do is download the same stuff - only faster - how can you justify that as an investment?

"If the mix of the normal usage - email, music, video, Facebook, gaming, stays the same, but just happens faster - is there an economic or social benefit in that for the private user?"

A spokeswoman for Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the NBN is about more than faster internet.

The NBN will open up opportunities for business to reach new markets as well as enhancing access to education and in-home health care.

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Gus: with high speed internet one will get high definition TV online and plenty more... Suddenly the world opens up. And those who supply cable TV quake in their boots... What's the use of high speed broadband? The same question was asked at the beginning of the PC stone-age... What's the use of personal computers?...

Telstra will start offering NBN Co services in October to customers living in trial sites in Tasmania, indicating the telecommunications giant is getting ready to move into the NBN environment.

One hundred existing Telstra customers will be offered new services and products from October to the end of the year so the company can test the compatibility of NBN Co's infrastructure with it's own products, Chief Executive David Thodey announced at a business luncheon this afternoon. Customers will only have to pay for their normal services.

“The pilot, commencing in October, is an opportunity for Telstra to assess how BigPond broadband services and next-generation digital home products such as T-Hub and T-Box perform over the NBN,” he said.

“It's the first time that Telstra has sought to access another fixed network rather than use our own, so it's important we ensure our products and services work smoothly."

Some customers will be given T-Hubs and T-Boxes for free during the trial period, while some existing BigPond customers will be upgraded to super fast broadband speeds available on the fibre network for a few months.

Currently only Internode, iiNet and Primus are selling retail services in the test sites.

http://www.smh.com.au/business/telstra-announces-nbn-trials-20100921-15ko6.html

Brisbane has turned its back on the federal Labor government's national broadband network (NBN), announcing it would go it alone and build its own network within four years.

The fibre optic network will be installed in the city's wastewater network and sewer pipes from next year.

It's expected that about 15,000 homes per month would receive access to the network once the rollout begins.

Lord Mayor Campbell Newman, from the Liberal National Party, said he "was not prepared to wait" for the federal Labor government's network to be built in Brisbane.

In a surprising move, federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy welcomed the project. He said that the decision to go with fibre vindicated the government's choice to go with fibre for the NBN.

"The government looks forward to seeing more details on the Mayor’s proposal," Senator Conroy said in a statement.

He said it was "disappointing" the Mayor’s federal Liberal colleagues were "unable to grasp the importance of the transformation this technology would deliver to Australians".  

“The Liberal Mayor of Brisbane understands that people want superfast broadband now," Mr Conroy said.

Opposition's communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull's office declined to comment.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/brisbane-turns-its-back-on-labors-broadband-network-20101014-16l1a.html

Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy launched a scathing attack on his opposition counterpart Malcolm Turnbull today, accusing him of "wilfully delaying" the rollout of cheaper, faster internet to all Australians.

Senator Conroy said Mr Turnbull's plans to force a cost-benefit analysis of the National Broadband Network and to subject the plan to scrutiny by a parliamentary committee was a "stunt".

"They are wilfully delaying millions of Australians from getting a fairer deal on broadband and telecommunications services," he said.

Senator Conroy made the comments as he and the Prime Minister announced the government's second attempt at getting a key enabling plank of the National Broadband Network through federal parliament.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/broadband-battle-pm-appeals-to-opposition-as-bills-reintroduced-20101020-16t6j.html?autostart=1

Key federal independent MP Tony Windsor won't back any move for a Productivity Commission analysis of the $43 billion national broadband network.

The Coalition will later today introduce legislation that requires the network to be the subject of a cost-benefit analysis.

"If they'd done a cost-benefit analysis on the Snowy Hydro Scheme ... it would probably show up that it wouldn't be a viable operation," Mr Windsor told ABC Radio.

The New England MP has been a strong supporter of the national broadband network, citing it has one of the reasons he backed a minority Labor government following the August 21 election.

Another crossbencher Bob Katter has signalled he won't support the coalition move either.

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/nbn-row-windsor-wont-back-cost-analysis-20101025-16zjs.html

Gus: on a cost analysis basis, one has to look at several factors. If one just looks at the profitabilty of the NBN one would not do it on the investment cost alone. If one looks at the social and business advantages, one would be stuck to precisely quantify a complex dollar value but one would be able to qualify it with a huge value. On the employment front, it's a reasonable winner. On the technological side the NBN is way ahead of the rest. It provides public internet speed and amount of data that is only afforded at the moment by trans-continental cable network. We will need this in business and at home in the quite near future. The price over 30 years will be small potatoes, like the harbour bridge toll before it became a source of revenue rather than a loan repayment...

I think Malcolm knows an analysis wouldn't prove a thing as figures can be manipulated legitimately to suit the desired outcome...

THE National Broadband Network will not deliver enough of a commercial return to justify government support, Malcolm Turnbull has declared.

The opposition communications spokesman also told parliament a private member's bill to allow the Productivity Commission to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of the $43 billion project would not delay its rollout.

Mr Turnbull today used a speech to parliament to attack the business case underpinning the network.

“The government has grounded its support for this project in the claim that while it will not generate a commercial return, it will nonetheless produce a return in excess of the bond rate for taxpayers,” he said in parliament.

Mr Turnbull said the NBN Co had originally been touted by former prime minister Kevin Rudd as a “thoroughly commercial project” in which “mums and dads would be wise to invest”.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/the-commercial-return-from-the-nbn-will-not-be-enough-to-justify-support-malcolm-turnbull/story-fn59niix-1225943194671

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Gus: Malcolm, Malcolm... Who cares?... Many of your mates would go for nuclear power for example as the antz pantz of economic sense... Nuclear power is one of the most non-commercial venture ever. Even in the land of "free" enterprise, America, the government has to give this industry an enormous amount of subsidies and tax breaks for it to operate "at a profit". Even the oil industry gets tax breaks as well, for goodness sake!!! In the UK, the government has to foot the bill for the clean up of old nuke power stations to the tune of nearly 150 billions pounds...

A fast broadband internet has far more benefit than The Australian newspaper is prepare to admit, because it will compete squarely with its owner's cable TV... I'm sure you know that, as communication increase exponentially in regard to content and speed, the commercial returns become far greater than one can imagine, even with a not-enough-return "cost-benefit analysis" at present...

What annoys me most, Malcolm, is that I have the feeling you know all this, but you're still doing the annoying destructor job assigned to you just for your little master Tony to keep his budgie.

Just give up your day job, Mal. Go away...

I could support NBN, says Turnbull Peter Martin

October 25, 2010

Bipartisan support for the $43 billion national broadband network is in sight after the Coalition declared it would find a tick of approval from the Productivity Commission ''incredibly persuasive''. [Crap]

Until now the Coalition communications spokesman, Malcolm Turnbull, has been arguing for a cost-benefit analysis of the nationwide project, but has declined to say whether even such an inquiry would make his parties support it. But speaking to Network Ten's Sunday program, he said the inquiry he was proposing might do the trick. [More crap]

''I would not as a matter of principle give a blank cheque to anyone, even the Productivity Commission,'' he said. ''But if the Productivity Commission were to report on the [network] as they should, and if they were to give it a big tick from a cost-benefit point of view, it would be incredibly persuasive.'' [To whom?]

What possible faith can we have in the above persuasion? This is a person who chose to support the ETS and lost his leadership of the untrustworthy Liberal rabble to the most unlikely of all the untrustworthies - the Mad Monk? The latter promptly overruled the deal Turnbull and McFarlane had negotiated?  Also the “Monk” had no qualms about lying and even putting it in writing – and signing it!!

So let’s not waste our time on the obvious and negative meanderings of a party which loses credibility every time one of its misfits makes a statement. It’s Murdoch who wants to deny the ownership of this massive and urgent innovation from the Australian people - who his minions call “the Public”.

The not very often mentioned fact is that Murdoch wants this NBN under private ownership where his immense wealth can buy it and make sure it does not interfere with his other communication monopolies. 

Well might he say that a cost analysis may show that it would not make a profit?  Could Murdoch buy that answer?  Would Turnbull keep his word (which is already only a maybe) or more importantly – does he have the support of the Coalition who threw him out of leadership for daring to negotiate with the Australian Government.

This has only become an extension of the Coalition’s negative policies which have their own National propaganda machine in the Murdoch “Australian”.  Under the Howard “do nothing” government Australia fell well behind even third world countries in bringing in needed infrastructure advantages and are now opposed to the National Broadband Network to be owned by the Australian people!

Going by his lack of influence in the Corporation’s Coalition, Malcolm Turnbull cannot, and doesn’t even try, to claim that a positive Cost analysis will get the “go ahead” by the “Wrecker’s politicians”.  So the fact is that the Turnbull “member’s” bill for an analysis that purports to decide whether or not the Australian people will financially benefit from the NBN is only overridden by the Corporations knowing that Abbott would put this enormous asset of influence in their hands A.S.A.P.

Abbott may try the old Liberal trick of saying that an NBN sale would help pay off Labor’s debt! How poorer and defenseless are we with foreign owned media?

This would then become another Howard/Barnaby Joyce promise that “we won’t sell Telstra”. Equally a case of give up the idea of the “public” becoming the outright owners of an asset of their own before it makes its position obvious to the Australian people - even greater perhaps than Australia Post.

Foreign ownership skyrocketed during the Howard “New Order” years of US wars of choice and Australian workers suffered greatly.  Wake up Australia.  NE OUBLIE.

  

 

 

Okay, I'll bite.

What is the major reason that there seems to be a very unseemly alliance between the Murdoch Media, the Corporations, the Coalition and even the Labor Party in denigrating the Greens?  What is their politics that would adversely affect our nation in the passage of time?

Is it a fear that they might become (and I think they have) another Don Chipp "keep the bastards honest" democratic party which eventually had to be destroyed by the betrayal of Meg Lees and the introduction of the Howard massive tax the GST?

I don't agree with all of their policies, some which are portrayed as extreme, but as Voltaire said - "I'll defend to the death their right to say it"?

The National’s coalition with the Liberals was originally to bolster the chances of the conservatives in taking government from the Labor Party.  In the 1998 federal election, Kim Beasley received more votes than the coalition but the distribution allowed Howard to continue.  The Nationals won the seats that tipped the scales Howard's way.

Nevertheless, Howard pursued his attempt to emasculate the Nationals.

As a Labor voter, would I support the Greens to be in a position to defeat the conservatives rather than allow the Liberal doctrine of succeeding –“regardless what we say or do –the end justifies the means”.  Yes I certainly would.

Some brilliant Liberal coined the phrase “the rainbow coalition”.  I like it.

It seems disingenuous to say that one person should not have the power to carry a vote when we have had F.F. Fielding – Senator Xenathon – and who can forget the one vote that placed Abbott in a position of potential power?

Recent events have demonstrated that a deal with the Coalition is a tenuous thing at best and their inherent belief in their absolute right to government was clearly shown by the maiden speeches of the conservative new members of Parliament.

I have a personal dislike of the vocal Green’s Mz. Milne but then I have the same disgust with several Liberal/Nationals.  Mr. Randall comes to mind.

The ancient Senates of Athens and Rome were supposed to vote according to the aspirations of their constituents – a worthy objective but the fact is that they formed their own cliques (parties) to convince the Senate to a particular form of action.

IMHO, the shock of the Murdoch power in a) supporting Kevin Rudd to such an extent that he won in a landslide and b)  when Kevin insisted on the Mining tax – he crushed him to a point where even his own party believed that Kevin was an “Albatross”.

Then when Julia Gillard intended to follow the Rudd policies, Murdoch decided that she had to go also. 

While trashing the characters of the two uncontrollables this person of previously unimaginable influence decided to take a person, universally disliked by the Australian people, and almost made him Prime Minister.

With this absolute power, we Australians must stop the Murdoch disease and if necessary, I would certainly choose the Greens before the Abbott mob.

NE OUBLIE.

 

 

 

Rising internet use 'boosts case for NBN'

National Broadband Network company head Mike Quigley says a big increase in internet usage has strengthened the case for a new Australian telecommunications network.

Australian Communications and Media Authority figures show significant increases in data downloads and people accessing the internet by mobile phone.

Mr Quigley, who is in charge of designing, building and operating the new, mostly fibre network, says the point where the old copper network runs out of capacity is approaching faster.

"As we've seen with this latest data, where we've had, year-over-year in the June quarter, another well-over-50-per cent increase in capacity from 99 petabytes to 155 - now that's a lot of bytes that have been downloaded in Australia," he said.

"Ultimately you're going to need a new type of infrastructure to keep up with demand."

You don’t expect to get something for nothing.

Ridiculously fast broadband comes at a cost. A multi-billion-dollar cost, at that. 

But I suspect some Aussie internet users were surprised by Internode’s recently publicised NBN pricing. 

When your government pays billions for infrastructure, you don’t expect to be slugged hundreds more each month to use it.

Would you like to hear about the alternative, though? Malcolm Turnbull has a plan to make any geek sob. 

It involves disbanding plans for a fibre-filled Australia and creating a hodge-podge of haves, have-a-littles and here-have-a-vouchers. 

It’s enough to make Internode’s $189.95 monthly plan look deeply attractive.

The NBN has been a long time coming. Remember when we thought it would creep in under Aussie homes within eight years? Those were good times. 

http://blogs.news.com.au/technology/blog/index.php/news/comments/think_the_nbn_costs_too_much_its_the_alternative_that_will_make_you_pay/

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The lying bitch... The Labor party has only been in power since late 2007... It could not have been 8 years for the NBN!... I mean this lying gadget girl... but then she ends with:

The Opposition’s approach is truly disappointing. Gillard, Conroy and friends want to stifle the internet’s content with a filter, while Abbott, Turnbull and pals want to deliver it to us on a drip-feed. 

Surely there’s an opportunity here for someone to get it right. Can someone tell Turnbull to embrace fibre and think of the future? 

Alternatively, Is there any way we can get the NBN in sooner? I’ll pay.

Be patient, gadget girl or move... to Tassie or Armidale... And see toon at top... and start praising Julia for sticking to it, against all the crap from most scribes and from Tony. Com'on, girl, give some loud credit!!. 

 

The head of the company rolling out the National Broadband Network has responded angrily to security concerns sparked by the alleged hacking of one the network's providers, accusing the media of distorting the story.

A man was arrested yesterday in New South Wales over the hacking of one of the NBN's contracted providers, Platform Networks.

The Australian Federal Police say further arrests over the incident are likely.

But chief executive of NBN Co, Michael Quigley, told The World Today that any report stating the National Broadband Network's security had been compromised is false.

"I want to be very clear if I can with your listeners - the NBN was not hacked, it has not been compromised, it has not been placed at risk and our security hasn't been breached," he said.

Mr Quigley also lashed out at media outlets over their coverage of the arrest.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-07-28/nbn-chief-blasts-media-over-hacking-coverage/2814582

 

Nah... The media distorting the story?... Never... The media never makes things up and never distorts the facts... Does it?

A report shows the internet has become as valuable as iron ore exports to the Australian economy.

The study by Deloitte Access economics, funded by Google Australia, estimates the internet contributed $50 billion to Australia's gross domestic product last year.

That would give the internet a 3.6 per cent share of GDP, which the report's authors say is roughly equivalent to iron ore exports.

The report forecasts that the internet's contribution to Australia's economy will keep growing by around 7 per cent a year to reach $70 billion by 2016.

The study also estimates considerable benefits that are not fully captured in the traditional GDP figure, including productivity benefits worth around $27 billion and household benefits worth more than $50 billion.

However, the report's authors stress that some of these benefits are captured in the GDP number, making it impossible to come up with any kind of precise estimate of how much value the internet adds to Australia's economy.

"The internet saves people time through activities like online banking and provides access to a much greater variety of goods, services, and information. It transforms the way business and government function," said Deloitte Access Economics director Ric Simes, who led the team writing the report.

"The internet is having a profound effect on how the economy and society works in many ways that we don't fully yet understand."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-03/internet-rivals-iron-ore/2821324

 

When the French started the Minitel, nearly 30 years ago, they knew that connecting people directly into services and with each others was going to be beneficial to the country... Then the Minitel got obsoleted by the more worldwide internet (about twenty years ago)... Not only the internet but also amazingly growing computing power... (Note: the Minitel is still in use and is to be phased out by 2012)

From one's home, I can produce say a large book or a entire magazine with high definition pictures, all sent and verified by editors and directors from their home too... And I can upload the large final files (several hundred megabyte pdfs) directly into a printer's set up via ftp (file transfer protocol that bypass the hubs of "internet providers" by created a separate network (internet providers restrict the size of email traffic to usually say 15 megabytes).

Doing so, In a few days I can do the work of what used to be done over several months by about 20 people... It has made a few industries redundant... such as separation film-making since these days proofs are printed directly by large inkjet machines and the final printing is done directly from plates. The printing industry (newspapers, magazines, books, leaflets) has been revolutionised — as well as new methods to communicate have come to the fore... The internet is barely 20 years old and already strong as a multi-faced industry... To me things like mug-book are only distractions, mostly making public the details of our "private' life... I avoid facebook and such "social" networks. I might have to join a professional network though... I visit and invite my friends in real time in real places. I don't "tweet" either. Twitter is about the precious glib-line rather than a solid piece of information. I may be wrong but I feel I'm too old to join this distracting fray. I use Skype to communicate around the world privately, despite the time differences. It's 6 PM in New York, when it's 8 AM the next day in Sydney... The new NBN will only speed things up... instant HD video stream communication will be easier though one can access YouTube and watch HD videos...

 

As long as we do not loose out immediate touch and feel — and physical relationships with people, the internet has added another dimension to our knowledge and way to capture understanding. The internet can also be a source of disinformation and manipulation of minds for the worse. We need to be extremely careful.

Australia is lagging behind other developed countries in harnessing the internet for business and needs to catch up, the federal government says.

Businesses must change their attitudes about people working from home and use the internet to connect employees through "telework", the minister for broadband and communications Stephen Conroy said.

"In Australia the number of people with an arrangement with their employer to work from home has been low by international standards," Senator Conroy said at a Telework Forum in Sydney today.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/send-staff-home-to-work-communications-minister-20110803-1iaq2.html#ixzz1TvmQSZIK

 

The Federal Opposition is launching a survey to help a future Coalition government decide which areas to prioritise for faster broadband services.

The Coalition says it will not be able to provide a fully costed broadband policy by the next election, but says its plan will be cheaper and completed sooner than the Government's National Broadband Network (NBN).

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-24/coalition-launches-broadband-survey/4276828

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Everyone knows that a chain is as strong as its weakest link... Everyone knows that as soon as there is a stretch of copper between your home and a hub, even if your are on fiber optics, your internet speed is going to suffer... ONLY FIBER OPTIC TO FIBER OPTIC can deliver the speed for the internet of the future... I don't know what Malcolm is on about — actually I do: it's dumb money and nothing else — but he should consider that the titanic sank not so much because it hit an iceberg.... But several other factors were at play:

Apparently the watch on duty in the tower DID NOT have binoculars allocated to him... so he could not see much beyond his nose... (range finding semi-night vision binoculars had been invented by then).

While the plates of the Titanic were of strong steel, the builder had skipped on the quality of the rivets. Apparently (possibly because of delivery delay) weaker "number 3" rivets were used instead of the specified "number 4" rivets... Experiments have showed that the number 3 rivets would pop and sheer under average stress while number 4 would hold — even under strong stressing factors.

The order to veer off was a secondary mistake. It would have been more effective (possibly more brutal and some people would have been hurt) to stop the engines, put in reverse and slam front on into the ice... Though this would have damaged the front end of the boat, the number of flooded compartments would have been reduced to one or two... (Though this hypothesis has been confirmed on boats that had slammed front on into icebergs — it may not hold water considering the cheap rivets used in the construction of the Titanic...

THE TURNBULL BROADBAND IS A TITANIC DISASTER in the solutioning, especially when home computer speed will reach light speed... His system would crash under the strain of increasing data.... We need HOME TO HOME NBN... See toon at top...

 

 

 

 

The explosive growth of popular social media sites has prompted technology companies to invest to meet the growing need for data speed.

The instant voice messages, photos and videos that ordinary people take for granted are competing for space with the massive amounts of data churned out by businesses and governments.

Not so long ago, terabytes or even gigabytes [Gus: it should be gigabytes or even terabytes] meant something very big when it came to moving and storing computer data.

Now tech visionaries like David Flynn, chief executive of the US-based Fusion IO, are using mind boggling numbers like "quintillion" in a cut-throat race to meet the need for speed.

"It is 18 zeros, one with 18 zeros. That is the equivalent of a billion billion or a million trillion," he said.

"Why do I use this number - because today the world is generating two-and-a-half quintillion bytes of data every single day."

Mr Flynn has another, easier way to describe the data deluge coming from real time voice and video flying between mobiles and servers around the world.

"If bytes were buckets of water, you're talking about it taking just 20 weeks to fill the entire oceans of the planet with data," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-28/visionaries-race-to-meet-our-need-for-speed-online/4284936

Tell Malcolm to shove it... (see article above)... See toon at top... Gazillions are the equivalent of 1 followed by a gazillion zeros. it's an open-ended number with little settled value...

 

Of the many broadband forums in the world, NBN Realized, which ran in Sydney yesterday, may not be the most glamorous. It focuses on the actual building of the network and was attended by the people who are on the ground installing cables to the houses, over and under the streets along with the people who make the cables and networking infrastructure. While no one wanted to go on the record directly, there was consensus from key players in the room: building a Fibre to the Node (FTTN) infrastructure, in terms of raw construction costs, as promoted by the Coalition, is now unlikely to be a "cheaper" option than the current Fibre to the Premises plans.

There are already many arguments to counter claims that FTTN is cheaper: the higher running costs, loss of savings to existing infrastructures, operating models, boosts to business and GDP etc all mean that FTTP is substantially cheaper when the major costs and benefits are factored in. But none of these arguments could counter the notion that the basic, cost-on-the-ground, building costs of a FTTN-based, basic infrastructure were cheaper... until now.

In a nutshell

In essence, NBN contractors such as Silcar/Thiess, SPATIALinfo and Service Stream are now so efficient at rolling out fibre down streets - from the exchange to people's houses - that stopping to add tens of thousands of large-fridge sized node cabinet represents an expensive, time-consuming hindrance. The hindrance comes with a practical nightmare of powering the node and intense bureaucracy born from the requirement of dealing with power companies, associated regulations and the necessity of using power companies' own engineers to hook each one up. One contractor said, "I don't know how you'd power them."

http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2012/11/16/3634499.htm?WT.svl=news3

In a nutshell, the alternative "cheaper solution" of the Liberal (conservative) opposition is MORE EXPENSIVE AND CUMBERSOME compared to the NBN.... 

 

In terms of the quality of the copper our insider said it was in a sorry state due to Telstra's maintenance "collapsing over the past five years." He pointed out that some maintenance got done with aluminium cable which is unsuitable for FTTN and it's not uncommon to see fixes made with plastic bags. He re-stated that the great enemy of copper was water and that this has been a problem for Australia because "when it rains, it pisses down."

It puts the implementation of a Fibre to the Node infrastructure (as favoured by the Coalition as an alternative to the NBN's current Fibre to the Premises-based roll out system) further into doubt in regards to its fitness-for-purpose.

Last week contractors for the NBN suggested that adding power to nodes was an expensive hindrance now that they were laying fibre so efficiently. However, Malcolm Turnbull subsequently told Mark Colvin on his PM radio programme that this was "Nonsense." However, he did not elaborate why and instead mentioned that the FTTN rollout by BT in the UK showed that FTTN was three-to-four times cheaper than Fibre to the Premises.

However, BT is now moving away from FTTN and towards FTTP as are other countries including New Zealand and China. A BT representative also told us how there were significant differences between the two countries' existing infrastructures and that they weren't necessarily directly comparable. It remains to be seen how the nuances of Telstra technicians' working practices are mirrored by their British counterparts. More on that in a later article.

http://www.abc.net.au/technology/articles/2012/11/23/3639761.htm?WT.svl=featuredSitesScroller

Malcolm Turnbull has no clue about the price of fish (or if he has he's till pushing the silly Liberal (conservative) idiotic proposal because he's been told to by Tony Detritus... Malcolm may be popular with the voters and he may have made lots of money with Spycatchers and investments, yet he's still living in the dark ages on the issue of the NBN... It's about time he thanked Labor for having had the VISION to implement something that has the value and the engineering marvel of about one humdred Sydney harbour Bridges... The NBN may not be as spectacular, because it is mostly "buried" but the feat will be there for all to use beyond one's dream in the not so distant future...

 

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