Fraudband

[Jovial_Monk]

#Fraudband is so futile, as is SN, with the “25 mbps is enough for anyone” compared with reality:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-05-31/i ... rce=feedly

As I have mentioned several times, the Internet of Things plays a prominent role, as does video.

Roll on NBN. . .

[IQS.RLOW]

Well, there's a dang googly moogly argumenty thingymajig

The reason we need to waste $90bn of taxpayers money is because of the "Internet of Things"

[Rorschach]

Told you so...

NBN issues compared to failed 'pink batt' scheme
June 1, 2013
Peter Hannam and Leesha McKenny

The roll out of the national broadband network has suffered its worst week with key partner Telstra battling at least one local community after the discovery of asbestos during construction work, while an accident on Friday left a network-related contractor dead in Kiama.

The federal government is hoping a meeting at Parliament House in Canberra on Monday will defuse concern it may be blamed for mishandling another large program, with independent senator Nick Xenophon drawing parallels with the abandoned roof-insulation ''pink batts'' scheme, which left four workers dead.

''The difference is that with asbestos, families might not know there is a problem for up to 40 or 50 years,'' Senator Xenophon said.

Comcare, the federal health and safety agency, issued prohibition orders on work involving the construction of the broadband network after asbestos was improperly handled at several pits owned by Telstra. These include Greenacre in Sydney's west, where work was halted on May 2, Penrith and the ACT.
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''It's all over the place,'' Senator Xenophon said. ''I'm worried that this is a systemic issue.''

Penrith resident Matthew O'Farrell, who was evacuated from his house over asbestos concerns, said he had been given no indication from Telstra when he and his family could return to their Hornseywood Avenue home. No agreement had yet been reached on how the work would be completed, he said.

''That's what we're angry about, they've put nothing in writing yet or agreed to how they're going to do our homes … all they're worried about doing is their pits,'' he said. ''What we're worried about is when they do their pits they'll then say we don't care any more about you.''

Telstra is conducting an audit of asbestos management for all contractors and has set up a team of 200 specialists to inspect and supervise all remediation work once it resumes. A Telstra official told a community meeting this week the country has between 5 million and 8 million pits, many built with asbestos lining.

Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Bill Shorten said Monday's meeting would focus on Telstra and how the company will ensure future work involving asbestos will be strictly controlled.

''We're calling all the stakeholders together on Monday to make sure the voices of everyone that is concerned are not swept under the carpet,'' he said.

The government would also seek a commitment from Telstra that they would not walk away from any claims made by workers who may have been exposed to asbestos, he said.

President of the Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia Barry Robson said it had asked Telstra to track down the four workers to register them with the dust diseases board. ''You think you are getting the message out there and then a big company like Telstra does something like this and you say to yourself … they just don't get it,'' he said.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy, meanwhile, said in a statement he was ''deeply saddened'' by the death of a 56-year-old man who was crushed during a workplace accident involving an NBN contractor's truck in Kiama on Friday morning. Police are investigating the incident.

with The Illawarra-Mercury

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[Super Nova]

Wow, unfunded liabilities galore, cost overruns, increased delays, legal law suites and ambiguous accountability. Wow this elephant just gets bigger.

Yes monk 25mbps is plenty for a long time if it is sustained bandwidth.

The way software is written today you don't have to have anything fully downloaded to begin to consume it so it is heaps. Nbn is overkill for most end user requirements.

[Rorschach]

and even if it was warranted the manner of implementation and roll-out was all wrong. It is overly expensive and does not allow the flexibility needed in an ever changing, rapidly changing, technological environment, for future technologies

[IQS.RLOW]

No no no...lets dig up all the asbestos pits exposing nearly every house and family in Australia to asbestosis just so Monk can have a broadband speed that he has no idea what the fuck to with.


Imagine the ALP legacy in 40 years time when we have 11 million people suffering from mesothelioma

[Mattus]

Imagine the ALP legacy in 40 years time when we have 11 million people suffering from mesothelioma

And the cancer research programs needed to prevent it are cut to fund middle class family tax benefits and tv advertisements.

[IQS.RLOW]

We will probably have been invaded and under the control of another govt by then seeing as they have also stripped the defence budget along with everything else.

[IQS.RLOW]

[Jovial_Monk]

Trust IQ to say something stupid. Asbestos has been found and removed properly before, this was one bogan contractor. So now Telstra will be even more careful re asbestos.

I wish I knew what SN is gibbering on about, real life experience here and Korea etc shows people think they need the fastest speeds. I guess irrelevance is looking him in the face, as anybody can start creating and uploading content and sharing it with the world, who needs SN then?