It’s absolutely vital that NBN stays in public hands. We all know what happened with the Telstra debacle.
hungryforpink-15 on
Manufacturing a win holy crap Labor has fucking nothing left in the tank. What’s one recent thing that we did that people liked that was bold
cricketmad14 on
We ALL know what happened with Telstra, Qantas, our power lines ETC. keep it all in public hands not private.
They will hike prices for the NBN if privatised.
Hot-shit-potato on
This is a silly move.. Nbn should be divided up between national infrastructure and residential.
The national infrastructure should be kept in public hands but the residential ‘last mile’ should be sold off.
The fact that everyone assumes they need a fibre optic Gigabit ready connection in their house is purely because of Kevin Rudd buying his win in 2007.
5G is far better for residential end users in Australia, especially when servicing low density suburbs with mostly single story buildings.. Its far more scalable over wide spaces and fsr more accessible and resilient.
Fibre should be kept to apartment buildings and high density areas with tall buildings where radio interference is super high and space is a premium for towers, OR for business purposes where you need an always on connection with specific uptime SLAs and you’re willing to PAY for it.
The problem with the nbn atm is its a ‘gold plated solution’ / Ferraris for everyone and its extortionately expensive to maintain regardless of whether or not it’s a government department or a government owned enterprise. It’s going to be an anchor on the tax payers neck and will not necessarily provide the productivity improvement that would justify it running at a loss.
As it stands now the only arm that makes genuine profit for the nbn is business services and reality is Vocus, Telstra, TPG and the company that owns Aussie BB do far superior private fibre for business.
iball1984 on
I get why it’s important NBN stays in public hands.
But why do we need legislation now and what will it achieve?
Labor wasn’t planning on privatising it, and in the future when the Coalition returns to power they can repeal this legislation and privatise it anyway if they want (and can get it through Parliament). Even without this legislation, the Coalition would have had to get legislation through parliament to privatise it anyway (the executive couldn’t just flog it off without legislation).
So it seems to me this is unnecessary and the government would be better focused on more pressing matters.
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It’s absolutely vital that NBN stays in public hands. We all know what happened with the Telstra debacle.
Manufacturing a win holy crap Labor has fucking nothing left in the tank. What’s one recent thing that we did that people liked that was bold
We ALL know what happened with Telstra, Qantas, our power lines ETC. keep it all in public hands not private.
They will hike prices for the NBN if privatised.
This is a silly move.. Nbn should be divided up between national infrastructure and residential.
The national infrastructure should be kept in public hands but the residential ‘last mile’ should be sold off.
The fact that everyone assumes they need a fibre optic Gigabit ready connection in their house is purely because of Kevin Rudd buying his win in 2007.
5G is far better for residential end users in Australia, especially when servicing low density suburbs with mostly single story buildings.. Its far more scalable over wide spaces and fsr more accessible and resilient.
Fibre should be kept to apartment buildings and high density areas with tall buildings where radio interference is super high and space is a premium for towers, OR for business purposes where you need an always on connection with specific uptime SLAs and you’re willing to PAY for it.
The problem with the nbn atm is its a ‘gold plated solution’ / Ferraris for everyone and its extortionately expensive to maintain regardless of whether or not it’s a government department or a government owned enterprise. It’s going to be an anchor on the tax payers neck and will not necessarily provide the productivity improvement that would justify it running at a loss.
As it stands now the only arm that makes genuine profit for the nbn is business services and reality is Vocus, Telstra, TPG and the company that owns Aussie BB do far superior private fibre for business.
I get why it’s important NBN stays in public hands.
But why do we need legislation now and what will it achieve?
Labor wasn’t planning on privatising it, and in the future when the Coalition returns to power they can repeal this legislation and privatise it anyway if they want (and can get it through Parliament). Even without this legislation, the Coalition would have had to get legislation through parliament to privatise it anyway (the executive couldn’t just flog it off without legislation).
So it seems to me this is unnecessary and the government would be better focused on more pressing matters.