Over recent days I’ve had a lot of people asking me about the cost of the NBN vs Fraudband. Things like “how much will FoD cost”, “did Mal include what’s already been spent”, & the biggest of all “how much will it cost ME to connect to either plan”. Well, there’s no simple way of…
Recently I’ve had some conversations with members of Save The NBNÂ about some of my work & some questions were raised by Matthew Rath about some of my statements on the state of the copper network. It was a difficult one to answer: How do I know the state of the network? Has there been an…
On Saturday morning I was greeted with my usual email alerts on NBN articles. One popped out at me, Malcolm Turnbull debating Ed Husic on ABC Darwin. I decided to listen to the interview over my morning coffee with the better half, by the end of it both of us were scoffing & muttering “bullshit”…
Just a quick post to thank Clifton Hill ALP & all those who attended last night’s “Chill Q&A” on the National Broadband Network. The response was overwhelmingly positive, although I can see there is still much confusion about the NBN. I’ll be posting a full rundown in the next week or so, for now, you…
For years now, the two conservative lines for broadband plans have been: look at what incumbent service providers are doing overseas, & let the private sector deal with broadband. Both of these lines are rapidly being shown to be hollow catch cries of the uninformed, deliberately deceitful, & technologically illiterate. There are many examples of…
Before I start, I think Politifact got it wrong by marking any of this “half true” after their findings clearly show that none of it is true. This refusal to mark lies about tech as “pants on fire” removes any faith I have in their ability to fact check. Anyway, Mal posted on his blog,…
THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY Recently I moved house, from the leafy green (& no planned NBN) streets of Essendon, to the lower socioeconomic area of West Footscray. We planned to move to West Footscray for 2 reasons: cheap rent, & future NBN deployment is planned. The move went well, only took a day due to our…