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
>>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>>>> B J Foster <bjfoster@yahoo.com.au> wrote
>>>>>>> Alan Parkington wrote

>>>>>>>> From
>>>>>>>> http://www.businessspectator.com.au/...D?OpenDocument

>>>>>>>> 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.

>>>>>>> Telstra is planning to start in the cities.

>>>>>> So is labor.

>>>>>>> The government wants broadband in the bush.

>>>>>> That govt has gone, stupid.

>>>>> The *labor* government wants 98% coverage,

>>>> So it clearly wants a hell of a lot more than broadband in the bush, fuckwit.

>>>>> how do you suppose they will achieve that by starting in the cities?

>>>> They START in the citys and end up doing the bush as well, fuckwit.

>>> And when do you suppose they will end?

>> Well after they start, fuckwit.

>>>>>>> It's good business to pay attention to your
>>>>>>> biggest customer - one would have thought

>>>>>> Only when you noticed that the govt has changed.

>>>>> Well of course its entirely possible that Labor can't do arithmetic but neither can you

>>>> You in spades. 98% is a hell of a lot more than JUST the bush, fuckwit.

>>>> And the real bush is the 2% that isnt even covered, fuckwit.

>>> ...but apparently you would

>> Nope, its never going to be feasible or sensible to deliver FTTN everywhere, fuckwit.

> I never commented on the feasibility

You have always been, and always will be, completely and utterly irrelevant.

What you may or may not have commented on in spades, fuckwit.

That was a comment on that terminal stupidity of yours, 'but apparently you would', fuckwit.

> it is Labor's goal to cover 98% of the population.

You quite sure you aint one of those rocket scientist terminal fuckwits ?

> That's going to take longer if they start in the city.

You have to start somewhere, fuckwit.

No point in starting where most people aint, fuckwit.

>>>>>>>> "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.

>>>>>>> Huh?