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I hate the way that this guy, Morrow, basically tells everyone to suck it up. He needs to be put back into line, and rather than fighting with everyone who criticises him, work on getting the best out of our broadband services. Then again, he is just the stooge/mouthpiece for the clowns on the Hill.
This new network was supposed to be our infrastructure for the next 50 years, allowing speed upgrades as they become available technologically. It was supposed to make things like remote technical and medical diagnostics a simple thing, and to connect those in remote areas with the world at large, without them having to make a holiday of it.
Instead, they have used old tech, still have way too much of the old copper in place, and are still using a throttling approach to bandwidth, rather than a user pays (for data used, but at full speed) approach. Worse, rather than just sticking to one type of technology to make everything seamless, they have at least three so far, and it is a hodgepodge of incompetence, from design to application.
This is partly why we have to share the Square Kilometre Array with South Africa.
NBNCo could easily open the tap on speeds, but being aligned with a cash-obsessed series of governments, they see and of course, seize the opportunity to charge a premium price for an amateurish broadband system, held together by string, bandaids and sticky tape, that in a lot of cases gives orse speeds than the technology it replaces.
Sadly, this is all going to be for nothing, when they eventually sell this to Telstra Wholesale, TPG or Anchorage Capital in a couple of years' time. (This is what I think will happen). Then watch the throttling happen.
My disclaimer - there are some excellent techs in the field doing great work with limited skills above them in management. I salute their efforts to make this happen, with what they have to work with.
The crazy thing is, with 5G mobile broadband only a couple of years away, and Telstra successfully testing gigabit throughput already, NBNCo is now pushing for mandated protection from this technology. In other words, they want to have blackout zones for high speed mobile phone tech, to protect this sad investment. At least until they sell this train wreck.
If only they had spent another $10 billion, we would all have fibre to our doors, and the government would be a little more popular. And that's what is really important to them, isn't it?
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