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I've never used the phrase earmarked.
I don't need to do the maths. According to the "maths" it will be repaid in 2034.
Yep, I must work for Conroy. Because I've already said I think his policy for the filter is stupid, and I was here at 11pm on a sunday night typing on an internet forum, and that's what pubic servants are paid to do
Your article just goes to show, yet again, how one-sided the Australian's reporting about the NBN is. eg:
Australian Information Industry Association:
Ian Birks, CEO: “Given the high level of significance of the broadband issue, and in particular its resonance with the independents, we now expect to see the roll-out of the NBN prioritised in this government’s term”
“There are immediate returns on offer for every business that will only become more powerful with ubiquitous, high-speed broadband.”
The Council of Small Business of Australia:
Executive Director Peter Strong: “[The NBN] is an equal playing field. You don’t get that too often. We want it, we need it.”
The Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry:
Peter Anderson, CEO: “The instinct in the business community is that there can be a real productivity kick and benefit.”
Google:
Alan Noble, head of Engineering: “The NBN will underpin Australia’s digital economy and will be just as vital an enabler of innovation, economic growth and entrepreneurship in the 21st century as national highways and the electric grid were in the 20th century. Simply put, it means a world of opportunities for all Australians”
Intel:
Phil Cronin, Managing Director: “It’s now time to move beyond debate… the NBN has the potential to deliver significant long term benefits to consumers and small businesses alike”
Microsoft:
“This NBN will be critical in the years ahead and essential for reducing costs in health and education service delivery. It will also contribute to overcoming the tyranny of distance that exists in rural and regional Australia”
Optus:
Maha Krishnapillai, Dir. Govt & Corp affairs: “… Broadband is crucial to Australia’s future prosperity and fibre is indisputably the best way to deliver high-speed broadband for the long term. As Tony Windsor said and we agree: ‘You build it once. You build it right. You build it with fibre”. There are still some people querying that there’s going to be some new technology that’s going to replace fibre and as recently as yesterday people saying that fibre is no longer the technology of the future. I’m not exactly sure what parallel universe people live on but fibre will be the way of the future.”
Paul O’Sullivan, CEO: “It’s long been our view that the National Broadband Network is economically viable and the release of today’s detailed study from McKinsey and KPMG confirms this. Most importantly the study has found that access to the network will be available to all Australians at a price they can afford, which is essential to the healthy take-up of services on the new network.”
Vodafone:
Vittorio Colao, CEO: “Australia is taking a very bold step….I honestly think that the vision that in this country the Government has is a very healthy one”
I agree that the govt needs to do more education of some business groups, but overall it's being welcomed by the business communty. Interesting that one of the groups quotes by the Oz has publicly announced support for the project.
Also interesting that the Murdoch press was one of the few media outlet that didn't report the CEO of Google's heavy praise of the NBN last week. Wonder why that was?
Smells like a Conroy hack job to me. You sirry iriot, not once was this a reference point. Just somehow in your guilt addled mind that you have espoused your preferences onto this subject??? Hard to belive that someone who REALLY likes the NBN would go to such great lengths to defend it as well as have ALL the rhetoric on hand to support such a massive con job on the Australian people. I remember when Keating tried on the "SA Smart State" programme to divert what was going on in the economy. LOLOLOL. Talk about history repeating itself. You remember this being a cosmopolitan 38 year old don't you? Keating was being whipped in the "unwinnable election". A red herring appeared in the form of buying votes in SA by stating that his Guvmint was going to build this technologically advanced super city where all the big brains can live and conceive how we should be living in the 21st Century. LOLOLOL. Sound familiar???
I also notive that ALL the business's that WANT the NBN have a vested interest .... Intel, Microsoft, Vodafone, Optus, Google and the rest just bleat what they are told.
I do not see Rio Tinto or Australia Post coming out nor do I see Woolworths or NAB extolling the virtues of the NBN ???? Ummmmmmm afterall they are 4 out of 10 of the biggest employers in Australia.
Talk about pear hunting ........ I know ..... let's give the keys to the liqour cabinet to the alcoholic and see if he will agree with you ?????? OF COURSE THEY GONNA AGREE WITH YOU !!!!!!!!!!! Pfffffffffttttttttttttttt ....... Now let's ask the general population if THEY want to spend billions of dollars on a technology they do not want nor understand when they are waiting for a doctor in an overcrowded hospital ... no wait ..... better yet ...... ask the person whose home has just been invaded and ask them if the require a blue cable giving them blindingly fast internet??? OR THE POLICE? Wait a minute , how about a nurse to attend to their cuts and bruises??? I think you will know the answer to this one.
You remind me of a guy I used to employ. Lazy to the extreme and always blaming as to why he couldn't get the job done because the tools and workplace were inadequate for HIM to realise his full potential. Funny how the other 9 guys on the shift could do the job easily enough.
"Senator Conroy, like a latter day Basil Fawlty, hires one consultant after another instructing them 'don't mention the cost-benefit analysis', and everyone, just like the dinner guests at Fawlty Towers, does just that highlighting very plainly that they were told NOT to perform such an analysis and in so doing confirming how negligent it is not to ask and answer the fundamental question about the NBN," he said.
But wait there is more ........
Greenhill Caliburn's document did, however, contain a number of caveats about the NBN project. For example, it pointed out that the NBN's successful implementation and financial forecast were subject to a number of "risks, contingencies and external factors", such as shifting technologies and consumer preferences, and that there was a lack of "directly comparable precedents globally for the NBN". (brush this aside nothing to see here)
In addition, Greenhill Caliburn also had concerns around the pricing of future products based on the NBN, noting that consumers might push back against a usage-based pricing model, that lower prices might need to be set initially to encourage higher take-up rates, and that retail service provider margins on entry-level NBN services might combine with lower-than-expected growth in premium services such as internet delivered television. (brush this under the carpet , inconsequential this stuff)
http://www.zdnet.com.au/nbn-business-case-reasonable-caliburn-339309190.htm
Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat ?????????????????
Don't add Telstra deal to NBN cost: Quigley
It is unreasonable to add the $13.8 billion payment to Telstra, which National Broadband Network Company (NBN Co) counts as an operating cost, to the $35.7 billion capital expenditure cost of the whole network, NBN Co chief Mike Quigley has said.
The government estimated that the original cost of the network would be $43 billion, however in the 36-page NBN business case summary released by the government last week, this figure was reduced to $35.7 billion.
NBN Co said this reduced cost was due to the Telstra deal, however this led to Shadow Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull and NBN critics with the Alliance for Affordable Broadband to add the $13.8 billion deal to the capital expenditure cost for the network to infer that the network may cost up to $55.2 billion.
http://www.zdnet.com.au/don-t-add-telstra-deal-to-nbn-cost-quigley-339307580.htm
and this little gem of a statement from Quigley no less,
"I know but I can't reveal that number," he said.
And my favourite of all time:-
"This is an asset that will be of value to the nation," he said.
Hmmmmmmmmmm ........ nation building springs to mind.
