Posts by grump3

nbn™ needs copper to build FTTN: another 15,000 km of it

The Facts:

Turnbull was ordered to "Demolish the NBN" a task he has accomplished to perfection at a massive cost & now you wonder why his MTM is "underperforming"? LOL!

Former nbn CEO Mike Quigley ends his silence, unloads on government

Re: So Quigley says it is not Quigley's fault.

This current mess all started when Abbott ordered Turnbull To "Demolish The NBN"

Nothing to do with "choosing the best approach in the real world" just another of Abbott's dishonest attack dog tactics to gain power at any price ably supported by Rupert's commercial interests.

The term "Fraudband" for a FTTN network was coined not by us but by a LNP "claque of cud-munching cretins" that switched from a fibre NBN over to MTM by reusing the copper they sold then recently spent billions buying back sight unseen despite Testra describing it as being "5minutes to Midnight" some 20 years back & has since been "Maintained using Lunch Bags" (both also "Faster & Cheaper")

How much of that copper will need to be "Remedied' by using what & at what cost? That 14 million every 5 months is just cover the node interconnections. But how much of the corroded copper is to be secretly replaced with more copper instead of Turnbull's promised all fibre remediation?

What with all their lies, misinformation & secrecy to date we're still expected to trust them to act in our best interests?

They've already stumbled from their original $29 to $56 Billion & likely rapidly heading towards Hockey's stated 70 Billion or more & that's not including any eventual far, far greater running costs for power & maintenance than on passive water immune fibre.

MTM: I would suggest is the inevitable result when career politicians, lawyers, bankers & their crony bean counters, instead of the sacked qualified experts get to determine their best outcomes instead of the country's.