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Senin, 11 April 2011

Telstra Should Not Have Been Compensated for the NBN Using Fibre Instead of Copper

It seems odd for the Government to compensate Telstra for building the National Broadband Network considering fibre optic cable is a modern version of old copper. If a rival company in the market place builds a new factory with modern equipment established firms are not paid a cent. Besides, the copper was funded by Australian citizens and not by Telstra per se.

Selling Telstra was a stupid idea anyway. People who bought shares should have known that the monopoly would eventually die. Perhaps John Howard saw the writing on the wall and decided to sell it. In recent times Testra has barely made a profit so it could no longer be relied upon as a cash cow.

The Australian Government is paying Telstra $11 billion in compensation. Laws should have been changed to prevent this public liability taking place. Telstra's ownership of the copper should have been changed before the sale. It's control should have been altered to protection of the copper network which was paid for by Australian taxpayers.

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Jumat, 11 Februari 2011

The NBN Will Be Scrapped When the Coalition Wins Government

Will Australia ever have a National Broadband Network? It seems it will only be partially completed before the Coalition wins the next election and puts a red line through it all. Telstra will remain the controlling body when NBN.com takes over. Not much will change in Australia's communication sector. Those who miss out will be terribly bitter about the mish-mash of a system we are left with. Just why the Coalition hates the NBN is hard to clarify. Why don't they want the nation to move forward with a world-class Internet network?

Telstra is being criticized for being too competitive in price cutting. There is not much profit left for small telcos. Surely, this is the way of the market, but is Telstra trying to "grab" the market before it gains control over a market that will be opened up again with a coalition win?

Telstra will survive a re-adjustment when smaller firms will fail. The Labor Government sees the deal "done" and a majority of the population believes this to be the case. It is certain however, that a new government will bring a stop it all - bloody minded or not. The NBN company will be dissolved. Australian right wing parties are dead against formation of the new national body. After all, they sold off Telstra.

Only one thing will stop this happening: that is Labor, The Greens and Independents could retain control of the upper house. Perhaps the Coalition will not need the upper house in order to scrap it?

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Minggu, 24 Oktober 2010

Damage Claims for RSI and Internet Related Radiation Are Falling

Watch that computer. It could be bad for your health. Remember when complaints were rife about WiFi signals damaging your brain? This charge was also aimed at mobile phones. Signals from towers were so small as to be hardly measurable. Radio and television transmissions are stronger. Home WiFi and computers generally are extremely low.

You are more likely to suffer from repetitive strain injury from using a computer than brain damage. Repetitive strain is becoming a major problem in all industries because computer use is so widespread. The upper-limb and neck are the danger areas. Even now though, many "experts" say the "illness" is imagined.

The "artists" can be identified because they try to get time off for aching wrists. Furthermore, it is difficult to prove that the injury was caused at work. People do many odd things away from work. Like factory jobs where the same movements are repeated, data processors are likely to suffer from RSI. In the 1980s half of Telstra telephonists claimed they had RSI. Oddly, today very few suffer from this. Over time, the number of people off sick with this complaint has fallen despite computer use becoming more widespread.

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Senin, 30 Agustus 2010

Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman Insults a Consumer

Some public servants do not serve the public. Indeed, they tend to favor companies that they are intended to "police". Considering these people are not elected there should be a way of removing them from their positions for insulting the public.

A case in point is the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman which was set up to deal with complaints from the public about telecommunications companies. When transferring an ADSL service to Telstra recently a problem arose. Telstra calls it Rapid Transfer when changing an Internet service to Telstra, but the system could not be used because the existing Internet provider was contacted by phone and email before the consumer was informed not to do this. Consequently, the consumer would have no Internet connection for up to a week.

I have since discovered that Telstra was lying and could not use Rapid Transfer because the existing provider was not on the list of companies agreeing to the system. Note, there is no intention of informing the public of the problem. Obviously, if consumers knew they would be up to a week without an Internet service they would not change to Telstra.

As if this problem wasn't enough to ruin the consumer's day, Warrick McArthur at the Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman's office insulted the consumer. He said, "You are upset because you can't make the world work your way." This insult was quite unexpected. Indeed, it is shocking behavior. Considering Warrick McArthur is employed by the taxpayer to represent them in conflicts with telecommunications companies.

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Selasa, 24 Agustus 2010

The NBN Will Remain an Issue into the Next Election

The NBN will live on. Despite the Coalition winning government with the ex-National Party Independents support, the National Broadband Network will remain with Labor at the next election. Indeed, they will win and put Australia on a path to a better future. There is no way the Australian people will accept "the private sector will provide" because it certainly won't. Telstra is only interested in market share. Hope lies in Telstra investing heavily and freezing out small telcos. This is its long term plan. Faster broadband is needed now, however, for medicine, education and scientific endeavours.

As a voter said in Bob Katter's electorate, God help Bob if he supports a Labor government. He will try to keep broadband. Tony Abbot will refuse and Bob will give in to his own deep conservative emotions. Like the Green who has already said he will support Labor. Eighty percent of Green voters used to vote for Labor. Even Bob Brown the Green leader openly prefers Labor over the Coalition. He has already warned that not much will get through the upper house.

The Coalition has not faced a hostile Senate before. It will be tough going for Tony Abbot. He is not a man for compromise. He has his own opinions and he wants his own way. The maternity leave issue is a case in point. Hardly any Coalition members want this. They don't want a heavier burden placed on business. The mining tax is not over yet either. It will be almost impossible for any government to balance the books without savage cuts much like the cuts in the UK. Like the problem government in the UK which will see the Liberal Democrats blamed for "sleeping with the enemy" and slaughtered at the next election, so the Independents here who go in with either party will face termination at the future poll in Australia.

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Sabtu, 14 Agustus 2010

A Win to the Coalition Will Be a Win for Telstra Without the NBN

One thing that could swing voters in favor of Labor is the National Broadband Network. Many who are absolutely fed up with the "miss-spending of the present Government still want faster Internet speed and they are willing to put up with more Labor failings to get it.

The Coalition has not seen the importance of this issue to voters. Its version of fast Internet is a feeble 12Mbps based on old technology led by the market. History has shown overseas that the market will not provide. Governments have had to build broadband networks.

Claims that the IT industry fully supports the Coalition plan instead of the NBN are untrue. The tech-heads who can do without the NBN live in the major city centers where cable is readily available. They are not concerned about the bush which telcos will never reach.

Telstra is now in the mix with the NBN. But if it fails to go ahead, Testra will fight back over time to dominate the communications industry again. It has already cut prices dramatically and is offering 8000kbps to outer city areas. To people who have had to "pay through the nose" for 512 and possibly 1500 this is really fast. A win for the Coalition will see people moving from small telcos back to Telstra in droves as they make the most of a bad thing.

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Senin, 02 Agustus 2010

Stop Press: CSIRO Develops New Broadband

It looks like Labor will lose the election. One thing is of great concern to me. That is the loss of the new national broadband network. Tony Abbot believes that private enterprise will fill the gap and make the leap. Without new technology this will not happen, particularly as Telecom still controls the copper wire network. The recent American CEO of Telecom did have one thing right about the Australian communication market - one company is shackled to the government but it still controls the whole market. Literally, when Telstra sneezes all the minor telcos don't just get a cold: they get the flu.

Ironically, a public company holds the one and only key to Australia's hope of catching up to the rest of the developed world. CSIRO has developed a way of high-speed computer data transmission in the 6 gigabite range. It is not only superior to existing Wifi, developed in Australia, it is 99.9 per cent loss free, that is, it doesn't lose anything to a cable connection. 4G is a toddler in comparison. CSIRO is looking to link up with private investors.

Importantly, in regard to broadband, CSIRO has made a submission to the NBN Senate Select Committee saying testing has confirmed potential to deliver a 100Mbps service in remote regions of Australia at a pittance of the cost of other technologies. Work is already being done on a microwave 10Gbps 50 kilometre test. At the moment the target is provision of service to remote regions, but it could become a front line system.

It is ironic in the past how new concepts have arisen to fulfill human need when required. In this instance, though, the advance has happened too late to be incorporated into the NBN as launched. Senators were informed late in the decision-making process and were really thrown off guard by the information. Patents have only just been filed. Senators virtually guaranteed government funding if private sector funding is not secured.

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