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It will be interesting to see if NBNMyths reports the Financial Review to the Press Council for publishing inconvenient truths.
Fewer than 100,000 Australian homes are likely to be linked up to the national broadband network in the months before the next federal election, making it easier for an incoming Coalition government to scale back the costly project.
NBN Co’s four-year corporate plan, released yesterday, predicts that 92,000 homes and offices will be customers by June 2013, a 14 per cent take-up rate well below the previous forecast of 566,000.
With an election due by November next year and the Coalition against a full-blown broadband network, there is great uncertainty about the NBN’s long-term future. The relatively low number of subscribers could help a Coalition government replace NBN Co’s plan with a simpler version.
The government will have to inject an extra $2.9 billion to cover a rise in capital and operating expenses. The completion date will be pushed back six months to mid-2021.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has delivered a fiery tirade against the media for constantly repeating misconceptions about Labor’s National Broadband Network project, singling out the Financial Review newspaper for particular ridicule and recommending that those interested in accuracy read broadband forum Whirlpool.
The Labor Senator opened a press conference held in Sydney yesterday to release NBN Co’s latest corporate plan by speaking in detail about what he said were a series of “misconceptions” regularly repeated in the media with respect to the NBN.
“You often think if Malcolm Turnbull put out a press release saying “Cost blowout in the NBN due to the Earth being flat”, it’d probably lead the front page of the Fin Review lately,” Conroy told the audience, which was composed of technology journalists from mainstream publications such as The Australian, The Financial Review and technology vertical outlets such as Communications Day, ZDNet and iTNews.
“For those that are interested in a comprehensive discussion of these issues, I can recommend to you the Whirlpool website, particularly the thread entitled ‘fighting the FUD’,” Conroy added. “It is a very informative thread, and I would encourage you to take a look at it. because it does address quite a few of the issues which we debate regularly.”
It will be interesting to see if NBNMyths reports the Financial Review to the Press Council for publishing inconvenient truths.
Your Government is spend about $5,600 per head ( stand by to pay more ) to get this to your door and you are not happy???
| 'The funding required to roll out the super-fast National Broadband Network has blown out by $3.2 billion, with the vast majority of the extra money to come from taxpayer funds.' |
Heard on 3AW this morning a pensioner who gets $800 a fortnight plus $200 from something else . after rent and costs lives on toast and crumpets.
Probably not the place to post this but I'm shocked and angry that her and thousands of others have been forced into poverty and then Gillard puts in a carbon tax to top it off.
Angry very angry.........
We're sure that given the choice, you would happily spend $5,653.85 on an Internet connection too. What's that? You wouldn't...we thought as much.
As it happens, when we arrived home last night we saw a letter from our Internet provider, iPrimus. They had written to say that due to an upgrade in the Frankston area we could now use the iPrimus network to get faster speeds.
How much do we have to pay for this upgrade? $5,000? More perhaps? No. It won't cost us a bean for the upgrade. In fact our monthly bill will be $20 cheaper.
Got that? The private sector can provide us with a better service at a lower cost. While the government has to charge each household $5,653.85 for a service we can't be sure will be any better than the one we've already got.
But as usual, the government thinks it knows how to better spend your money than you. So it forces you to spend thousands on health insurance that you don't need, and now it's spending $5,653.85 of your tax dollars on an Internet connection you probably pay about $60 a month for.
That's some interesting maths you've got there. Care to show some working?
If we take the total funding of the NBN to 2021 ($44bn) and divide by the current population (22million), we get $2,000 per head.
If we take the total funding of the NBN to 2021 ($44bn) and divide by the projected population in 2021 (26million), we get $1690 per head.
If we take the peak Govt investment ($30.4bn) and divide by the current population (22million), we get $1,380 per head.
If we take the peak Govt investment ($30.4bn) and divide by the projected population in 2021 (26million), we get $1170 per head.
FYI, the per-capita Govt (PMG) funding to build the copper network (according to BRW) was $1,222.
If we take the peak Govt investment ($30.4bn) and divide by the current population (22million), we get $1,380 per head.
MALCOLM Turnbull: As Senator Conroy descends further and further into the pit of paranoia, the ranks of the hate media in his mind get bigger and bigger. Anyone that disagrees with him is engaged in a vendetta.
Other highlights of the press conference. Has the cost increased?
CONROY: It's a pull-through rather than an increase.
If you subtract $35.9 billion from $37.4 billion, how does it come to $1.4 billion?
CONROY: Ah, rounding. If you go into the deep into the documents, that's why $3.9 billion is the correct figure though. A quick look at those rounded estimates would get you to a slightly higher figure than that, but if you look at it, there's a more detailed couple of decimal points. It's a rounding issue. It's literally just a rounding issue. Up front, they round them up. If you're looking for a detailed document to find the estimate, it's a couple of decimal points. When you do the divisions and adds and subtractions, it comes to the figures we're talking about.
Calliope - you seem to be on a paid subscription to the Australian. We only seem to be able to read the headline and 1 or 2 sentences.
Here is more of the article.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/seriously-minister-cut-and-paste-tries-to-utterly-utterly-ignore-the-flat-earth-review/story-fn72xczz-1226447081912
I know what you mean but in the case of the NBN I'd be expecting a bail out of the contractor given the huge political commitment to building it. Eg spend the $ and keep the issues out of the public eye rather than allowing delays because someone went broke. My guess is that's what will happen...
Heard on 3AW this morning a pensioner who gets $800 a fortnight plus $200 from something else . after rent and costs lives on toast and crumpets.
Probably not the place to post this but I'm shocked and angry that her and thousands of others have been forced into poverty and then Gillard puts in a carbon tax to top it off.
Angry very angry.........
Pure and utter fantasy...no ifs and or buts about it.The private sector can provide us with a better service at a lower cost. While the government has to charge each household $5,653.85 for a service we can't be sure will be any better than the one we've already got.
What a complete crock.
Is 1 vote Tony going to force the power company's to roll back the price rises that have all come BEFORE the carbon tax kicked in...no chance in hell.
Any idiot pensioner that has to live on Aldi baked beans now is and always was a charity case.
Pure and utter fantasy...no ifs and or buts about it.
By the way Glen...hows the Internet in the Philippines? Private sector and lighting fast???
What a complete crock.
Is 1 vote Tony going to force the power company's to roll back the price rises that have all come BEFORE the carbon tax kicked in...no chance in hell.
Any idiot pensioner that has to live on Aldi baked beans now is and always was a charity case.
Pure and utter fantasy...no ifs and or buts about it.
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