In a response to an article about the MyBroadband failure, the Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull provided a GST on a Birthday Cake moment. Turnbull's faux pas is discussed in the weeks article on Technology Spectator.
Turnbull's most recent NBN audit must rise above politics if it is to achieve a believable and reasonable outcome. But will it? There are so many factors to the NBN debate and Turnbull must realise by now that he will have to pull a rabbit out of the hat to justify the multi-technology mix NBN. Can he? In this weeks article in Technology Spectator the NBN public policy process audit is discussed.
Before the Coalition government takes a backwards step, Telstra should offer to save the NBN and give Telstra shareholders a boost along the way. In Technology Spectator the idea that Telstra can save the NBN is put forward and discussed. Should Telstra and the government get together and talk about what can be done, rather than perpetuating the errors of the past decades?
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During the JJJ Hack Debate on the NBN on April 16, the Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull asked the question why I have "never contacted him nor his office" and thereby implied that I was in some way living in an information vacuum. Turnbull is quite correct that I'm not a journalist, I'm an academic that is commenting on the NBN - my area of expertise. Postive and negative aspects of the NBN have been discussed over the past several years.
Were you aware that Australia is falling further behind other nations? The slow but steady decline in Australia's broadband affordability and capability has brough about yet another shift further down the rankings to 44th. Today in Technology Spectator, the state of the Australian broadand scene is compared with international competitors. Recent events and trends do not bode well for Australia, having decided to rollout FTTN at a time when more and more nations are moving to FTTP.
What do you think the government should do?
Backhaul prices are too high and capacity is being drip fed onto the market to ensure prices remain high. Tasmanians suffer a regulated backhaul regime and there appears to be no light on the horizon. The telecommunication industry's history of backhaul cherry picking is discussed today in Business Spectator. Should NBN Co be held hostage by an industry that knows that NBN Co has no option but to pay and pay and pay?
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NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow's in a difficult position and the Senate committee's questions will not make it any easier for NBN Co to move past the current raft of difficulties facing NBN Co. There is still uncertainty about the Coalition government's multi-technology mix NBN 2.0. Will NBN Co become a Telstra reseller?
The state of NBN construction is highlighted in this weeks article on Business Spectator and I ask the question "Is it too late to save the NBN?" Do you think the NBN can be saved and is the situation so bad that the NBN is doomed irrespective of whether the NBN is the Labor NBN or the Coalition multi-technology mix NBN 2.0?
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