The Set Up Perhaps this could be seen as a case study not just of the volatile and sometimes distorting character of social media, but equally of the ultra-politicised broadband debate we have in Australia, where people prefer to make accusations and leap to conclusions than actually listen with an open mind and then judge…
When reading Big Mal’s “Strategic Review”, one cannot help but be struck by two things: One, the amount of redaction of figures to do with HFC, as I covered yesterday, and two, the amount of information that doesn’t match up with NBN Co’s 2013-2016 Corporate Plan. The latter is concerning, as the review’s supporting “Independent…
Recently Vodafone CEO, Bill Morrow, made some fairly strong demands of the NBN to aid mobile operators after a McKell Institute report (Superfast Broadband: The future is in your hands) suggested allowing mobile operator access to NBN fixed wireless base stations. Firstly, I’ll address the report. While quite passionate, the report didn’t really cover technological limitations,…
Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.’ – Isaac Asimov Over the past decade we’ve seen scientific & social debates derailed by anti-intellectuals & denialists. From climate change to…
I’ll say this is my last drink of the NBN fountain before the election. We have only days left, & the Coalition have relegated the National Broadband Network to a non-core promise, as exemplified by dropping it from all LNP literature. Over the past week there have been some ridiculous claims floating around from the…
I decided to write a post on what I think will happen if the ALP lose the coming election & the LNP take over the NBN. To start off with, it’s clear that there are no solid plans for an election victory. Everything hinges on 3 separate review processes. Something I think will take time…
In my almost 20 years in IT I can’t count how many times I’ve heard the phrase “when X (wireless standard) becomes the norm we won’t need physical connections”. It was said of 2G (GPRS) that we wouldn’t need a home Internet connection if we had one of these devices, that didn’t eventuate. When 2.5G…