87% take up the NBN

[Jovial Monk]

33 dogs were entered in her class, only three dogs passed, including Demi! Isn’t she a clever dog!

Oh, and it was Defence procurement, don’t tell me about red tape and government procedures!

[IQSRLOW]

Only 33? I've heard that you have done way more than that

[IQSRLOW]

hehehehehe I had some fun with Deepshit who didn’t realise it was fine to offer wifi in Brissy parks but that wifi spots have to be wired back to the net! Also mentioned the NBN business case would be released once sanitised of commercial-in-confidence

So Deepshit (sure it was him) guest posted there and said I had no idea of government procedures and had never seen CiC files.

bwahahahaha I had great joy in mentioning my nearly 20 years as a public servant working in defence procurement. He mad e snide comment that I should stay here and twitter about my garden and dog. So I mentioned both

Why do you bother with your twitterblog and run back there to comment? Is it because you can nuke any opinion that doesn't agree with your fucked up opinion whereas here you would be called upon to answer- and ignore as you have done so far? Certainly not something the real PA would tolerate, but something the real PA would become under a JM admin

[Jovial Monk]

Oh man, some people can do wonderful things with their dogs.

Dancing with dogs!

Mary Ray (the woman in the YouTube) is a top person for this sport of dancing with dogs—she normally opens the last day of the Crufts Best of Breed Show!

[Jovial Monk]

Brisbane City Council will introduce WiFi hotspots at both New Farm Park and the City Botanic Gardens next Wednesday.

Transmitters will be located near the New Farm Park rotunda and at the Queensland University of Technology end of the gardens.

Poor old Deepshit forgetting about how the transmitters connect to the rest of the ’net and so making a strong case for the NBN hehehehehehehehehehehehe the schmuck!

[Jovial Monk]

Ah dear, is this the lamest comeback ever?

Monk old crone. Data can be transmitted from land based installations wirelessly. Amazing hey.

Next time you venture outdoors take a look around you. Those people on laptops at cafes or on the train - they are using the internet. Without wires!!!!!

You will feel like you have landed in the future and will not recognise it, but don't be alarmed. It is called the present.

Wireless doesn’t have the bandwidth. It doesn’t have the symmetry. I use computers wirelessly too! Remarkable eh? (And use 3G mobile wireless broadband. It sucks, as you would know if you ever used it.)

But transmitters are backwired with fibre for one good reason. If you got 200 people on a train accessing that trains wifi it needs real grunt to handle all that traffic to/from train, or the park.

FO to connect everything, wifi to use the net at the endpoints will be the way it will go tho. Thanks for admitting that the NBN will be needed, schmuck!

[Jovial Monk]

Oh yeah, and “people letting go their landlines”? Only for phone! Have a look at broadband plans and you see all these plans for “naked ADSL.” That is people using their phone lines for ADSL only. Nobody goes wireless unless Telstra”s long running neglect of the copper has them on pair gain, or they are on a RIMS or whatever. Wireless doesn’t cut it you see!

[IQSRLOW]

Oh yeah, and “people letting go their landlines”? Only for phone! Have a look at broadband plans and you see all these plans for “naked ADSL.” That is people using their phone lines for ADSL only. Nobody goes wireless unless Telstra”s long running neglect of the copper has them on pair gain, or they are on a RIMS or whatever. Wireless doesn’t cut it you see!

Why do you lie?

THE number of people ditching fixed-line telephone services in favour of mobiles is larger than previously thought; just two-thirds of young Australians connect landlines when they move out of home.

About 14 per cent of mobile-phone users no longer have a fixed-line telephone at home, says a survey of 18,000 people by the Australian Communications and Media Authority.

This is bad news for Telstra, which owns and operates the copper wire telephone network and has experienced declining revenue from this high margin product line. Its revenue from fixed-line rental and call tariffs has declined from about $7 billion in 2006 to $5.8 billion last financial year.
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Of those choosing to keep their fixed telephone line, a third said it was convenient or cheaper than mobile, and just 13 per cent said it was because fixed lines offer better quality or more reliable service.
About 7 per cent of respondents said they kept a fixed line for an internet connection.

The number of fixed telephone lines has remained at 10.7 million since June 2000, but the number of mobile telephone connections has increased from 8 million to 24.2 million in the same period.

[Jovial Monk]

He of the little peazel keeps posting in my threads. Wish he would go and quietly jack off in a corner instead. It feels like stalking!

[Jovial Monk]

Wow, just found this at Whirlpool:

Dismal and disheartening: Barnaby on the NBN
Even accounting for Senator Joyce's characteristic bluff and bluster, the undisciplined spray Barnaby directed at Stephen Conroy’s NBN and the government's ability to deliver high-speed national fibre to a timetable was simply jaw-dropping, a study in nonsense.

Labor's NBN will deliver far better outcomes for regional Australia – far, far better – than the Coalition's cobbled-together collection of half measures. Senator Joyce knows this.

Julia Gillard's health announcement yesterday, in which she created the means for doctors and specialists to start online consultations for people in areas where there are shortages of health care professionals, has neatly wedged the Nationals. Of course, regional Australia will be the chief beneficiaries of the health announcement, just as they will be in a raft of other broadband-enabled service areas.

As night follows day, Barnaby came out swinging. Air swings. Lots of air swings. Just awful to watch

The NBN plan must have been authored by a poor pretender to Hans Christian Andersen, he said. The NBN was like building and delivering a Maserati to 93 per cent of Australians, he said. The Tasmanian NBN has cost $500,000 per household, he said.

Barnaby was elected at the late 2004 poll and entered the Senate in mid-2005. During the intervening period he was neck deep with NSW Nationals Senator Fiona Nash in a whitepaper on telecommunications policy that was written in conjunction with the party's Page Research centre.

Barnaby and Fiona unveiled the Page finding and recommendations with much fanfare and a pig's arse chance of ever being implemented in a Howard government at a press conference at Parliament House.

Page's top-line recommendation was to build a national fibre optic network. It also sought the structural reform of the telecommunications sector, in recognition of the crippling lack of competition for services in the bush. [My emphasis.]

Barnaby was not tangential to this paper. He was all over it. He helped write the Page recommendations for government intervention on a grand scale to address market failure. It was dubbed the "Glass Snowy," a nation building program of proudly agrarian socialist proportions.

And it was ignored by the Liberals, who were – and still are – living in a world of denial about the market's continued failure in large swathes of the telecommunications sector. And in mistakenly thinking they can kick-start the market by tinkering with regulatory levers.

To see the Nationals now argue for the dismantling of their unrealised dream is extremely disheartening. All for the sake of Coalition unity under Tony Abbott. This sell out might have looked OK last year when the Coalition was simply trying to avoid a massacre, but its not a pretty look now.

The Nationals need to come clean about this. Regional telecommunications is held up as a die-in-a-ditch issue for the party and yet here we are.

Having dismantled Malcolm Turnbull's leadership last year through its implacable opposition to the emissions trading scheme – a hugely successful campaign that very nearly blew the Coalition apart – the Nationals fell into lock-step behind new leader Tony Abbott.
. . . .
Barnaby's dismal press release of yesterday was a nonsense because it simply wasn't believable. It was a sleight of hand, a kind of loud, embarrassed cough to provide some political cover.

Contrast that with the April 2009 Barnaby press release that followed Kevin Rudd's NBN announcement:

"How could we disagree with something that is quite evidently our idea," Senator Joyce said.

"This delivers a strategic infrastructure outcome."

"It is vitally important that the National Broadband Network gets to the corners of our country where the market has failed, at a price that is both affordable and a service that is comparable."

http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-analy ... on-the-nbn

So the opposition to the NBN is *just*party*politics* {sigh.} Bumpkin politicians like Barnyard, ever ready to be populist while stabbing supporters in the back!

John Howard would never have implemented the Page plan—the money was needed for important things like pork barreling and buying elections, that is why there was no infrastructure spend, that is why the education and health budgets were robbed.