This is not a game, this is serious business: Telstra

There is no doubt that Australia needs high-speed broadband if it is going
to survive in the future. Speaking at the American Chamber of Commerce in
Australia business briefing in Sydney on Tuesday, Telstra's Group Managing
Director for Public Policy and Communications, Dr Phil Burgess, said that
high-speed broadband is serious business for the country.

"Australia's future competitiveness, productivity as a nation and our
ability to survive in the 21st century is going to depend on high-speed
broadband connectivity and yet we are toying with it," Dr Phil said at the
briefing.

Dr Phil said that the delaying in the National Broadband Network (NBN)
Request for Proposal (RFP) process was holding Australia back.

"Broadband means more for Australia than any other country in the world
so that we can have high-speed broadband connections within the country and
between Australia and the rest of the world," Dr Phil said.

"Yet, we are in a process where the NBN RFP is pretending that there are
seven or eight other groups that can build this national broadband network.

"But to build a National Broadband Network to the specifications, it is
going to require deploying around 80,000 nodes across the country. They all
have to be manufactured either in the US or the EU as that's where you make
them. Then they have to be transported to Australia, put on trains, and then
hauled out to 80,000 sites around the country.

"Who has the ability to do this? How many of these companies who are
bidding for this have already reserved assembly lines to produce the 80,000
nodes? We have," Dr Phil said.

"This is not a game. This is serious business for the country. And
Telstra is the only company that can seriously do it."

Alan Poxington <wanker@iarseaustralia.com.au> wrote

> There is no doubt that Australia needs high-speed broadband if it is going to survive in the future.

Its already GOT high speed broadband, you stupid fuckwit.

> Speaking at the American Chamber of Commerce in Australia business briefing in Sydney on Tuesday, Telstra's Group
> Managing Director for Public Policy and Communications, Dr Phil Burgess,

Otherwise known as the hippo...

> said that high-speed broadband is serious business for the country.

Its already GOT high speed broadband, you stupid fuckwit.

> "Australia's future competitiveness, productivity as a nation and our ability to survive in the 21st century is going
> to depend on high-speed broadband connectivity

Its already GOT high speed broadband, you stupid fuckwit.

> and yet we are toying with it,"

Bare faced lie. Most can have adsl2+ if they want it, you stupid fuckwit.

> Dr Phil said at the briefing.

Wankfest, actually.

> Dr Phil said that the delaying in the National Broadband Network (NBN)
> Request for Proposal (RFP) process was holding Australia back.

Bare faced lie. Most can have adsl2+ if they want it, you stupid fuckwit.

> "Broadband means more for Australia than any other country in the world

Bare faced lie. Most can have adsl2+ if they want it, you stupid fuckwit.

> so that we can have high-speed broadband connections within the country

Most can have adsl2+ if they want it, you stupid fuckwit.

> and between Australia and the rest of the world," Dr Phil said.

Most can have adsl2+ if they want it, you stupid fuckwit.

AND no one has ever prevented telstra from doing NBN itself any time it wants to, you stupid lying fuckwit.

> "Yet, we are in a process where the NBN RFP is pretending that there are seven or eight other groups that can build
> this national broadband network.

Like it of lump it, you stupid lying fuckwit.

> "But to build a National Broadband Network to the specifications, it is going to require deploying around 80,000 nodes
> across the country.

Bare faced lie. Most can have adsl2+ if they want it, and you wouldnt need
anything like that to get the coverage up to 98%, you stupid lying fuckwit.

> They all have to be manufactured either in the US or the EU

Bare faced lie.

> as that's where you make them.

Bare faced lie.

> Then they have to be transported to Australia, put on trains,

No one uses trains for that sort of thing, you stupid lying fuckwit.

> and then hauled out to 80,000 sites around the country.

You wouldnt need anything like that to get the coverage up to 98%, you stupid lying fuckwit.

> "Who has the ability to do this?

Anyone who has the money, you stupid lying fuckwit.

> How many of these companies who are bidding for this have already reserved assembly lines to produce the 80,000 nodes?

No one, including telstra.

> We have," Dr Phil said.

Lying, again, in the sense that telstra has to pay for them even if they dont get the contract, you stupid lying
fuckwit.

> "This is not a game.

Yep, yours is a lying wankfest.

> This is serious business for the country.

Most can have adsl2+ if they want it, you stupid fuckwit.

> And Telstra is the only company that can seriously do it."

Bare faced lie.

Alan Parkington wrote:
> There is no doubt that Australia needs high-speed broadband if it is going
> to survive in the future. Speaking at the American Chamber of Commerce in
> Australia business briefing in Sydney on Tuesday, Telstra's Group Managing
> Director for Public Policy and Communications, Dr Phil Burgess, said that
> high-speed broadband is serious business for the country.

Then let's hope you clowns don't get your hands on it!

> "Australia's future competitiveness, productivity as a nation and our
> ability to survive in the 21st century is going to depend on high-speed
> broadband connectivity and yet we are toying with it," Dr Phil said at the
> briefing.

Then telstra should stop operating like an anti-competitive,
money-grabbing circus, take their role as a service industry seriously,
and act responsibly instead of like a bunch cowboy bandits.

> Dr Phil said that the delaying in the National Broadband Network (NBN)
> Request for Proposal (RFP) process was holding Australia back.

But you didn't give a damn about that when you where dragging your feet
and deliberately slowing it down, did you?

> "Broadband means more for Australia than any other country in the world

Bollocks!

> so that we can have high-speed broadband connections within the country and
> between Australia and the rest of the world," Dr Phil said.
>
> "Yet, we are in a process where the NBN RFP is pretending that there are
> seven or eight other groups that can build this national broadband network.

With a bit of luck Telstra will get split into 7 or 8 groups!

> "But to build a National Broadband Network to the specifications, it is
> going to require deploying around 80,000 nodes across the country. They all
> have to be manufactured either in the US or the EU as that's where you make
> them.

That's not where *i* make them, drongo. If there's that many needed,
they should be make in Australia.

> Then they have to be transported to Australia, put on trains, and then
> hauled out to 80,000 sites around the country.

Hauled to Broome by train, no doubt?

> "Who has the ability to do this?

Practically anyone. I could do it if i had the money. Any fool with half
a clue could.

> How many of these companies who are
> bidding for this have already reserved assembly lines to produce the 80,000
> nodes? We have," Dr Phil said.

None - including you.

> "This is not a game. This is serious business for the country. And
> Telstra is the only company that can seriously do it."

Then cut out the anti-competitive circus and start acting responsibly.