NBN Rollout Scrapped

[trainspotter]

That's really silly stuff julia...almost as silly as Tranny and sptrawler supporting the concept of 2 NBN's

Bwahahahhahahah aaaa *gasp* ahhahahhhahaahaah *gag* ahhahahaahhaaa

I believe sptrawler has corrected you in the appropriate manner. As you were.

Can we please try and stay on topic and not lean toward the political arguments thanks.

 

[sptrawler]

Last week wasn't it reported that the guvnmnt, oh sorry N.B.N, were in talks with Leightons to be the prime contractor. As they say a week in politics is a long time. This just keeps getting better, Telstra must be having a great time sitting back and watching this pantomine.

 

[IFocus]

The Libs actually had the greater first preference vote, so your suggestion that the government was 'elected by the majority of the people' is a misrepresentation of the facts.

"A misrepresentation of the facts."

I think this is the........Labor actually won the primary vote in the last election all be it by a slim margin for gods sake I have posted the link at least 5 times.

And no I wont be posting it again look it up.

 

[IFocus]

Coalition was actually just ahead on both primary votes .

No they were not Labor won the primary vote please look it up..........you are believing Abbott propaganda

OK here it is ........Mumble from the Australian

Labor wins the two party preferred vote 50.1 to 49.9

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com...wins_the_two_party_preferred_vote_501_to_499/

 

[trainspotter]

No they were not Labor won the primary vote please look it up..........you are believing Abbott propaganda

OK here it is ........Mumble from the Australian

Labor wins the two party preferred vote 50.1 to 49.9

http://blogs.theaustralian.news.com...wins_the_two_party_preferred_vote_501_to_499/

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh I do love a true statement of fact. Glorious by it's compunction to dismiss any obsolete furtive notions of meaning. Tis a piece of art. This is why Labor is in power by the slimmest of margins.

Anyhoooooooooo ....... can we get back on to the NBN please?

http://www.zdnet.com.au/optus-vodafone-we-re-getting-4g-too-339309241.htm

*sniff sniff* Is that 4G I can smell?

Vodafone Hutchison Australia (VHA) and Optus have issued a muted reaction to Telstra's plans, which were announced early this morning, to upgrade its flagship Next G mobile network to the Long Term Evolution family of fourth generation (4G) wireless technologies, pointing out they were also in trials of the standard.

 

[boofhead]

What 4G is that? The telco business seems to have variable definitions for what 4G really is.

 

[trainspotter]

What 4G is that? The telco business seems to have variable definitions for what 4G really is.

I think it is the LTE version ....... they are not telling what speeds they are getting from it though which makes it a bit of a blatant furphy really. Telstra announced it's version this morning and Vodaphone and Optus jumped on the spectrum bandwagon threatening to dump their version of it only in "selected" areas (read capital cities)

http://www.zdnet.com.au/telstra-plans-lte-upgrade-before-year-end-339309198.htm

 

[Julia]

Re the numbers for the last election:

Tony Crook, the Nationals member for WA sides with the Coalition, giving them 73 to Labor's 72.

 

[tothemax6]

Is it scrapped yet?

I hope it isn't scrapped, indeed since the NBN is so important, I hope the government doubles our taxes and puts 80% of the total tax revenue into building this. In fact, put all our tax rates to 90%, and put 90% of the revenue into the NBN. Government knows better what to do with our money than we do anyway.

For our own goods, of course.

 

[zzaaxxss3401]

...Government knows better what to do with our money than we do anyway.

For our own goods, of course.

Just like the widening of the West Gate Bridge in Melbourne. Another $310 million spent on a wider bridge for ALL Australians, just to push the congestion problem from the Western suburbs, into the Docklands:
http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/west-gate-bridge-revamp-blows-out-20110414-1dg0i.html

VicUrban and VicRoads are both useless. Next they'll bring in a congestion charge to pay for the extra trains needed to alleviate the congestion problem. But cause delays on the train system, because it was never meant to cope with an increase number of trains.

Good luck Melbourne you're gonna need it!

 

[drsmith]

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nat...e-great-nbn-saga/story-e6frgd0x-1226039357795

Telstra can, of course, then use that money as a treasure chest to buy market share with even more power than under NBN mark I as it saves on the capex. The government has passed legislation to effectively outlaw cherry-picking - which it could have done under NBN mark I - but within weeks we have already seen how toothless that may be with a group of independents fibre operators revealing in CommsDay that they will exploit the perceived inflexibility of NBN Co and continue to pursue greenfields builds.

Comments ?

 

[sptrawler]

The N.B.N has already conceded that Telstra will have to supply smaller greenfield sites. Which one assumes theN.B.N will have to revisit at a later date.
Maybe the groups that are revisiting the insulation stuff up and retrofixing that, can then continue on and fix up the N.B.N stuff ups. You never know it might be a new guvnmnt dept," Australian Dept of Guvnmnt stuff ups and non natural disasters". Sounds good to me and they already have excellently qualified candidates to step into the top position. Conroy, Gillard and Rudd, actually the selection process would be very difficult as they are all very highly credentialed in the field.
As for Telstra spending big and creaming the opposition, it would be a mistake with this Marxist guvnmnt in power. They would just come up with a new law that says Telsra and only Telstra is not allowed to spend any money on adverstising and for every new subscriber they have to pay a penalty to the Singapore guvnmnt.

 

[zzaaxxss3401]

Can someone please explain the meaning behind the spelling: Guvnmnt?

What am I missing?

PS - I'm not being funny... I don't understand the "in" joke.

 

[sptrawler]

As far as I can work out it is shorthand used and developed by the unwashed masses who have trouble with spelling large words. There also appears to be a link to our current encumbered party the history of this I am unsure of.

 

[noco]

As far as I can work out it is shorthand used and developed by the unwashed masses who have trouble with spelling large words. There also appears to be a link to our current encumbered party the history of this I am unsure of.

It is probably the same uneducated people who say "should of" instead of "should have".It is the manner in which Australians pronounce certain words and roll them in together I guess. I for one, am not perfect.

Not withstanding the younger generation of course who seem to be developing their own brand of 'Oz LINGO COS' it suits them to be different, hence the shortened version of 'GUVMINT' which is often the way it it is spoken. Some of the younger ones spell words the way they are prononced. They call it literacy and it all goes back to how good our modern school education system is and that is, it is not up to the standard it was decades ago.

 

[sptrawler]

It is probably the same uneducated people who say "should of" instead of "should have".It is the manner in which Australians pronounce certain words and roll them in together I guess. I for one, am not perfect.

Not withstanding the younger generation of course who seem to be developing their own brand of 'Oz LINGO COS' it suits them to be different, hence the shortened version of 'GUVMINT' which is often the way it it is spoken. Some of the younger ones spell words the way they are prononced. They call it literacy and it all goes back to how good our modern school education system is and that is, it is not up to the standard it was decades ago.

Spot on NOCO and now we have dropped the multiplication tables from our modern school education system. Apparently at the request of the retail industry. LOL

 

[noco]

Spot on NOCO and now we have dropped the multiplication tables from our modern school education system. Apparently at the request of the retail industry. LOL

Yeah, da call it redin, riten and adin up. Good stuff ha.

 

[noco]

Apology to ASF members. My last post is a bit off the beaten track of NBN. It became side tracked with someone seeking an explaination of 'GUVMINT'.

 

[Happy]

It is probably the same uneducated people who say "should of" instead of "should have".It is the manner in which Australians pronounce certain words and roll them in together I guess.
.....

"should of" - this one irritates me, but what can I do?

On the other hand any shorter version of communication message increases speed of the Internet, bringing us back to the topic of this thread.

 

[Julia]

As far as I can work out it is shorthand used and developed by the unwashed masses who have trouble with spelling large words. There also appears to be a link to our current encumbered party the history of this I am unsure of.

It is probably the same uneducated people who say "should of" instead of "should have".It is the manner in which Australians pronounce certain words and roll them in together I guess. I for one, am not perfect.

Not withstanding the younger generation of course who seem to be developing their own brand of 'Oz LINGO COS' it suits them to be different, hence the shortened version of 'GUVMINT' which is often the way it it is spoken. Some of the younger ones spell words the way they are prononced. They call it literacy and it all goes back to how good our modern school education system is and that is, it is not up to the standard it was decades ago.

I don't know where 'guvmint' came from. I'd have suggested a more appropriate spelling for the common pronunciation of 'government' is 'gummint'. The 'v' is omitted.
I think WayneL was on to this long ago.

Just laziness and not on a par in the woeful pronunciation stakes with a Prime Minister who says 'hyperbowl' for 'hyperbole'.!