Rod Speed wrote:
> B J Foster <bjfoster@yahoo.com.au> wrote
>> Rod Speed wrote
>>> B J Foster <bjfoster@yahoo.com.au> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>> B J Foster <bjfoster@yahoo.com.au> wrote
>>>>>> Alan Parkington wrote
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>>>>>>> From
>>>>>>> http://www.businessspectator.com.au/...D?OpenDocument
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>>>>>>> Telstra Chairman Donald McGauchie has hit out at the Optus-backed
>>>>>>> G9 consortium's renewed interest in building the national
>>>>>>> broadband network, declaring Telstra the only viable bidder.
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>>>>>> Telstra is planning to start in the cities.
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>>>>> So is labor.
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>>>>>> The government wants broadband in the bush.
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>>>>> That govt has gone, stupid.
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>>>> The *labor* government wants 98% coverage,
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>>> So it clearly wants a hell of a lot more than broadband in the bush, fuckwit.
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>>>> how do you suppose they will achieve that by starting in the cities?
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>>> They START in the citys and end up doing the bush as well, fuckwit.
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>> And when do you suppose they will end?
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> Well after they start, fuckwit.
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>>>>>> It's good business to pay attention to your
>>>>>> biggest customer - one would have thought
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>>>>> Only when you noticed that the govt has changed.
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>>>> Well of course its entirely possible that Labor can't do arithmetic but neither can you
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>>> You in spades. 98% is a hell of a lot more than JUST the bush, fuckwit.
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>>> And the real bush is the 2% that isnt even covered, fuckwit.
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>> ...but apparently you would
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> Nope, its never going to be feasible or sensible to deliver FTTN everywhere, fuckwit.

I never commented on the feasibility, twit, it is Labor's goal to cover
98% of the population.

That's going to take longer if they start in the city. Try to keep up.

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>>>>>>> "The new government has a view as to what they want out of
>>>>>>> telecommunications and we'll do our very best to work with
>>>>>>> that," Mr McGauchie said.
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>>>>>> Huh?
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