Poirot,

Please stop dredging up pinheads and presenting them as "Some one who knows what he is talking about". Renai LeMay has a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and simply writes what others tell him. I read a couple of his articles and I doubt he even knows what a fibre optic cable looks like.

I live less than 2km from a network hub and get 25Mb/s on ASDL2, and have just commissioned a Gigabit copper network using Cat6 cable at work. Copper can easily handle high speed, but the longer the distance the less the speed. The whole point of FTTN is to reduce the distances from say 5km to 500m which increases the speed 10x. This gives vastly increased speed at a fraction of the cost. Considering that about 90% of those connected to the NBN have taken packages of 25Mb/s or less, the need to triple the cost of the network (and the rental costs) to make a fewer gamer nerds happy seems a pointless thing that only Labor would do.

Poirot,

Please stop presenting pinheads as "someone who knows what he is talking about. Renai LeMay has a bachelor of Arts in English literature, and from what I have read of his articles, would not know a fibre optic cable if he saw one. The "Delimiter" is a blog containing almost his exclusive opinion pieces almost completely devoid of any actual technology, and feature laughable articles where Scott Ludlam of the greens (with a qualification as a graphics designer) describes the coalition (with the creator and CEO of a large telecoms company) as technically illiterate.

Even the FO back bone is inadequate and would not be able to cope with everyone using the high speed packages.

Sounds a bit like here Poirot. I don't know who closed the Gold Coast railway line, but it was no use when they did. Pity they did not leave the line gathering tumbleweed, as they could not afford to rebuild it when the time for it came.

Now we have a line to the backblocks serving not much useful purpose. They had to open a couple of new suburbs to make it work, & Brisbane folk can't catch a train to the beach, as they can in Sydney.

On the subject, new technology will overtake the NBN long before it becomes useful for most of us.

we need a royal commision into the issue immediatly
but that wont happen..why?

someone in telecomunications set the whole thing up
from the public service that now owns it to the experts that advised him on how to do it/to the public service who figured out how to keep it off THE BOOKS

HEC KEVIE WAS A PUBLIC SERVANT/UNDER THGAT GOSS TOSSER..WHEN GODD GOT PETER BEATUP THE LAWYER TO LET SIR JOE OFF BY PUTTING IN A VIP FROM THE YOUNG NATS

NO ITS A TOO ROTTEN MESS
BUT WE NED TO KNOW..royal commision[or be revealed its just more spin.like spin docters threat/t
thread
http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=6282&page=0

im sick of these spin name-calling games
get serious or get another job
http://investmentwatchblog.com/meet-the-billionaires-behind-government-agendas/
we deserve to know who told who what and follow the money
[the default clause frOM MEMORY ALLOWS IT AL TO GO BACK TO TELECOM/OWNED IN THE MAIN BY THE PUBLIC SERVICE PENSION FUND

nope stop the spin
this isnt going anywhere...just talk spin blab blab blurb
http://www.stirringtroubleinternationally.com/2012/02/06/why-would-anyone-become-a-politician-if-not-to-get-rich-and-enjoy-the-perks-of-office/
im, sic..of it.
govern..or go
http://www.naturalblaze.com/2014/03/13-ways-foodies-are-changing-food.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576849/Ministers-ignore-recommendation-World-Health-Organisation-drastically-cut-sugar-intake-avoid-obesity-heart-disease-diabetes.html
Eric Schmidt to dictators: '
http://xrepublic.tv/node/7836
Dictators are taking a new approach in their You don’t turn off the internet: you infiltrate it'
Br
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/07/google-eric-schmidt-jared-cohen

THE NBN WILL trackback..to
a condition of the tendER..IN WA..needing to get the fibre to wa/for the super sky watching array thing/..that will produce BILLIONS OF MEGA BIT DATA AND NEED BE SENT WORLD WIDE/IT WAS THE FIRST STAGE COMPLETED..CAUSE IT ECHOES BUT DIMLY BY PROXIMITY...BUT IT NEEDS THE MEGA DATA/IT WILL BE OUR BIGGEST DATA SENDER EVER..no doudt public service will lead back to there/to kevie.to the default terms that send it baCK TO TELSTRA/NICE WIBNDFALL..TO WHOEVER RUNS THE SCAM/GREAT INCOME STREAM YEARS DOWN THE TRACK

IT WILL OUT RANK SELLING THE COMMONWEALth bank for 9 billion
when today thats how much proffit just one common /privatised bank makes

bah..hang the lot of em
proceeds of crime will get the cash VALUES BACK..CAUSE ITS ALL HELD in trusts run by the same elites /no it will go no further/tony will syop funding it/by default it goes back to telestra con..full STOP

NEXT ITEM PLEASE
ya know china has convicted 800 judges this year alone[the new normal]
the corruption is finaly being stamped down on [in china]
here..dont count on it.

its too intrenched/from lawyers making laws/to judges defending and judging by the laws/till the appeals to lawyers running the higher courts[sepperation of powers ..lo, dont make me laugh]..corruPTION IS THE SAME SAME ELITES Sending the middle class down/yet again
http://whatreallyhappened.com/

read the links and weep
then stop ya crying and tell tony to play with a straight bat ..or
we see his leg blocking the true target..lbw

A bit of fun on the news tonight. We haven't quite gone back to a man with a red flag walking in front of the cars, but damn near.

This fool tram system has started practicing on the Gold Coast. There have been so many accidents, & near misses, the thing is running at not much more than walking pace, with, wait for it, a police car preceding it, driving very slowly.

How anyone who has seen the mess that is Melbourne traffic could ever think a tram is a good idea, I really can't imagine.

I can only wonder who paid whom & how much, to put this monstrosity on the Gold Coast strip.