NBN Rollout Scrapped
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So_Cynical
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You should hang your head in shame...watching that crap!
Alan Jones with Pictures. :shake:
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Last 10 seconds is very interesting.
When Bolt shakes his head at laying new fibre optic cable besides existing copper cable does he genuinely not understand the difference, or is he just mis-representing?
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It's a pity Kevin Morgan got cut off in mid stream. He really ddi look like he wanted to say more. I would very much preferred to have heard more from him than from the other Rudd.
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Surprised that NBNMyths hasn't posted this yet..
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Yes Danny, this thread has been quiet.
I read the other day that there were meant to be 540,000 connected by next year. It has now been revised to 54,000.
I bet the cost hasn't been revised down.LOL
I read the other day that there were meant to be 540,000 connected by next year. It has now been revised to 54,000.
I bet the cost hasn't been revised down.LOL
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Yes Danny, this thread has been quiet.
I read the other day that there were meant to be 540,000 connected by next year. It has now been revised to 54,000.
I bet the cost hasn't been revised down.LOL
Well I see today Conroy and the 'jack boot' boys, are going to sort out the problem with customers saying we don't want the N.B.N.
If you don't take it, they come in and rip out your phone connection.LOL,LOL,LOL what a hoot.
That will sort out the slow take up.
MUM,I know your on holidays,but they've come in and taken the phone off the wall.LOL
Conroy reminds me a lot of Basil Fawlty with a touch of Adolph. Yep you can see where Tanner is coming from.
HOME OWNERS no longer have to consent to government-owned NBN Co installing fibre optic connections on their property, as the company moves from its cumbersome consent model to automatic installation.
The launch of NBN services in South Morang in Melbourne's north yesterday marks one of the last areas to get demand-driven installations, where households are only connected upon request. In August NBN Co said it would use powers in the Telecommunications Act that allow carriers to enter private property to install equipment.
Residents can still opt out of a fibre connection, an NBN Co spokeswoman confirmed. However, they will have no fixed line connection once the Telstra copper network is removed under a deal between Telstra and NBN Co.
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/business/n...ation-model-20120926-26ld9.html#ixzz27fCIr5qS
Shouldn't it read the Government moves from the 'would you like the N.B.N' to 'SHUT UP YOU ARE GETTING IT OR YOU WILL HAVE NOTHING, GET OVER IT'
Your paying for it you have it or have nothing. What a joke.
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We are all paying for it with our taxes, so why wouldn't you want it done?
So some idiot doesn't want it because of fuzzy political thinking.
You can bet he would call them back once all his neigbours have it and he has missed out. But then it would cost a lot more.
Hardly jackboots, more having to deal with the thicker members of the Australian Public, some with Kangoroos loose in the top paddock.
So some idiot doesn't want it because of fuzzy political thinking.
You can bet he would call them back once all his neigbours have it and he has missed out. But then it would cost a lot more.
Hardly jackboots, more having to deal with the thicker members of the Australian Public, some with Kangoroos loose in the top paddock.
No its NOT fuzzy political thinking, I for one DON'T NEED NBN, I have all I need with out all this extra expense to the tax payers. I can down load any thing I need the way it is now.
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What if you sell your house? If I was buying it I would be very disappointed to find there was no NBN connection. Definitely lower the price.
Why fight getting it connected? Thet will waste taxpayers money as they have to hire people to deal with you.
You just don't get it, what about the old lady next to us, she has no computer, what use is the NBN to her????.
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Cost/benefit analysis ??
The current government has long since abandoned the idea that it's our taxes.
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The slow roll out is going to have an exponential effect on the end cost.
Contracts have been let, manpower employed, logistics companies pre booked, materials ordered and committed to.
If the expected connections next year were 540,000 and the actuals come in at 54,000, it will cause a huge blow out in time, costs and revenues.
Remember this monster is supposed to be self funding, that's why it's not included in the budget. Some time someone is going to have to answer for the shortfall of expenditure to income.
Contracts have been let, manpower employed, logistics companies pre booked, materials ordered and committed to.
If the expected connections next year were 540,000 and the actuals come in at 54,000, it will cause a huge blow out in time, costs and revenues.
Remember this monster is supposed to be self funding, that's why it's not included in the budget. Some time someone is going to have to answer for the shortfall of expenditure to income.
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That's an answer to a different question.
Whether you agree or disagree with the rollout, you would be a mug to stop your own personal connection.
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That's an answer to a different question.
Whether you agree or disagree with the rollout, you would be a mug to stop your own personal connection.
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Agree with you on both posts.LOL
If it goes past your house, get it connected.
As Knobby say's it will cost you a lot more later on, when the tax payers aren't paying for it.
I don't agree with it ,I think the money would be better spent on more productive infrastructure. But I will get it put in my house at no cost if it goes past.
Reminds me of when Foxtel started up, $29 for an optical connection to the house and one months free Foxtel.
I payed the$29, they were there for a day getting the line in.
I watched it for a month and then they had to come out and take the box away when I chose not to extend the subscription.
When I sold the house it was Foxtel cable ready. Jeez that was back in the late 80's
What I disagree with is this governments lack of regard to peoples choice, they don't ask, they tell.
Also their lack of moral compass, everyone pays out on Tony for being Tony, but nobody gives a $hit if Julia is Bob Brown or Julia is anyone who can give her a popularity spike.
I just think the press need a reality check, maybe they get payed that much, that it doesn't matterhow badly the economy is run.
However the grass roots people know you can't keep cranking up debt and say you are doing well. This is underlined by the way the government have cranked up their pays, they know where it is going.
Yes get the N.B.N while you can, IMO the cost blowouts will cut it well short of its targets so get it while you can. It's underwritten by the government, gulp, us.
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Senator Conroy and red underpants.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-28/conroy-caught-on-camera-making-undies-on-head-gaffe/4286562
He wasn't joking.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-28/conroy-caught-on-camera-making-undies-on-head-gaffe/4286562
He wasn't joking.
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Hardly jackboots, I think you are ill informed Knobby, Conroy was born in the wrong era. IMO he would have fit very well in a political party from the 1930's that had grandious aspirations in Europe.
He appears to have issues, I wonder if anyone has looked into his early years?
How Labor can say Abbott has issues, when they have Conroy as a senior minister, is beyond belief.:1zhelp:
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Yeh, maybe you should take a gander at your hero, Conroy, what a dick.
This is a perfect example of the people running the show, no wonder Tanner is pizzed off.
Now Tanner will be bad mouthed by the goon show, suprise, suprise.
If one person votes for the labor party, they need their heads read.
Just my opinion.
