The Hon Bruce Billson MP
Shadow Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy

Labor’s pre-election spin about the absence of broadband in Australia
has collided with post-election commercial reality.

Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has written to telecommunications
carriers warning them of the looming introduction of legislation to
force them to disclose sensitive information about their networks, but
in typical style provides no detail.

This letter is another example that Labor is desperately trying to
formulate policy on the run to catch up with its detail-free sound bites
in relation to its vague, national fibre to the node broadband concept.

The minister’s willingness to intervene in the sector at the first hint
of non-compliance is also a worrying early sign from a new and
inexperienced Government.

In a brief letter to telcos, Senator Conroy has flagged his intention of
introducing Telecommunications Legislation Amendment (National Broadband
Network) Bill 2008 this week to enable the collection and disclosure of
information.

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I knew you would bring that one up.
In fact the consequences of Global Warming are seen on the petering
out of native water in aquifers, the consecutive lowering of such and
concomittent invasion of sea water inland. As you probably ignore the
7 seas are a derisive aspect of the whole Earth mass, and the effect
of Earth mis-management by a greedy Humanity are generating an
accelerated drift on the Ecliptic, leading to increased meteo system
tangential Vortex speeds ! + other things of equal interest ...

... as you probably ignore it as well, since this is only taught in
the True Geology cursus, the origin of planets are in their Mother
Star and our past is quite evident ... as for our next future position
it's heading towards Mars orbit which will be reached in a less than
one million years

Don't laugh about the situation, Mate, it's irreversible and it's not
Rudd and his one 1 000 bullocks who will change it !
HUMANITY IS DOOMED TO EXTINCTION AND THE CULL COULD START SOON INDEED

lynx wrote:

lynx nothere.com> wrote

Who has no relevance what so ever to anything at all, ever.

Does anybody have the faintest idea of what, if anything, the Government is
going to do about broadband access?

It was a big part of their election platform, but I know less about what
they are actually going to than I do for the Education Revolution (which I
know somehow involves free laptops).

So, what is their strategy in this key policy area? Can anybody tell me?

Peter Webb DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote:

Yep, they are attempting to get FTTN done by anyone
who wants to do that after being given $4.7B by the govt.

See above.

On Mar 20, 3:10 pm, sir.jeanpaul-turc...@neuf.fr wrote:

"Rod Speed" gmail.com> wrote in message
news:64ejneF2bkc10U1@mid.individual.net...

OK, so its called FTTN and it costs $4.7b. Just going down one tiny level of
detail:

* What is a "node", exactly? I know what "fibre", "to", and "the" mean, but
I haven't actually seen any definition of "node".

* Can you tell me where these nodes are? I assume there is at least 2, or
the fibre would have nowhere to run, have you any more detail?

* Who will own it?

* Who will be its customers?

* How will it be regulated?

Peter Webb DIESPAMDIEoptusnet.com.au> wrote

The govt would however be happy to accept FTTH if anyone
was actually stupid enough to offer it for that money.

Nope, that's just what the govt will hand out. Whoever is doing
that would need to put up similar sort of money themselves,
and the govt requires that it should cover 98%% of users, in the
sense that they should be able to sign up for it if they want to.

Basically a chunk of the exchange moved out to a box in the street/pit etc.

See above.

On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 15:26:04 +1100, Rod Speed wrote: