(Okay, so it's still breaking for me!)
Our favourite Prime Minister (God help us all) Kevin Rudd has announced that after all the tenders were in... He just ditched the whole thing.
The Government has abandoned all the registered tenders and decided to build their own, supposedly using private investment. Good luck with that, seeing as you kind of sunk us even deeper into a deep Global Financial Crisis....
After several consortiums spent millions upon countless millions putting together proposals, (fine, Telstra saved the cash and went to the pub instead), and then the Government spent countless millions setting the whole thing up, and checking the consortiums, Krudd decided to just ditch them all and "run with it".
So now the Government is somehow going to muster up enough cash from private investors (could've done with those $900 cheques, hey?) to lay fibre optic cable to "90%" of the population.
Hang on! 90% of the population get Broadband?90% of the population also happen to live in all the major coastal cities who happen to have broadband coming out their ears, yazoo, arse and just about every other bodily orifice. So why exactly are we spending all this money on laying fibre optic cable up to houses who don't need it. Hmmmmm...
Technologically speaking, he is promising all kinds of great Nirvana-like improvements, but without anything to really back it up. This plan has been cooking since the Howard days, but nobody has really sussed out how exactly they're going to do it. Now with the Government doing it, there's a bit of a mystery as to who will control, charge, and/or maintain the system. he's claiming up to 100kb/sec, which in the grand scheme of things, isn't that much.
Oh well, at least now i can add another wannabe to the list of people trying to get us to buy their internet connection. Meh...
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