When I first saw the NBN announcement and how it was to be structured I wondered "gosh that is a really bad setup, how could things be worse". Then I saw what was done when the Liberal party came to power and realised that - yes things could be even worse.
Frankly Australia your telecommunications sector is a f******g disgrace. If I could just sit smugly over in Auckland and laugh then I wouldn't care but my role requires that I regularly source new network connections for the company in places throughout Australia - and that is a nightmare.
I'm being offered 2MB fibre for the same price as I pay for 100MB business grade fibre in NZ - and that only where it is available. Some places there is neither NBN fibre nor any spare capacity for DSL (I am looking at you Pacific Fair).
If you are an Australian citizen you should be looking for suitable lamp-posts and gathering rope and rounding up telco executives. It seems like nothing else will solve this.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
