tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post1084907899628649314..comments2023-05-27T23:20:32.194+10:00Comments on Marco's Blog: They should have built fibre to the premisesMarco Parigihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-52036459505264663512011-08-10T13:53:37.831+10:002011-08-10T13:53:37.831+10:00What isn't so blindingly obvious is how to rev...What isn't so blindingly obvious is how to reverse the mistakes of the privatisation. My assertion was the building of new infrastructure to leapfrog current private infrastructure and to buy back whatever was still useful about the old (conduits etc.) was the best way to move foreward. Its almost as if the initial privatisation done the right way has happened.Marco Parigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-57617386006659267342011-08-10T12:09:40.270+10:002011-08-10T12:09:40.270+10:00If we were to have our time again with privatising...<i>If we were to have our time again with privatising Telstra, we should have split the infrastructure from the rest of the value of telstra, and just sold off the rest. </i><br /><br />Yes, yes, YES!!!<br /><br />This has always been blindingly obvious to me, like "don't put the guinea pigs in the same cage as the timber wolves".Chris Fellowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020350770567584929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-46220445264863802802011-08-10T11:38:13.738+10:002011-08-10T11:38:13.738+10:00My main point is this. If we were to have our time...My main point is this. If we were to have our time again with privatising Telstra, we should have split the infrastructure from the rest of the value of telstra, and just sold off the rest. The duplication of mobile tower assembly infrastructure combined with the bottlenecking of backbone segments means that what redundancy there was not making the network more reliable. All mobile services are subject to downtime when the bottlenecked segments were congested or cut. A government owned monopoly would tend to only duplicate vulnerable infrastructure rather than for competitive reasons.Marco Parigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-4436268534799327802011-08-09T19:03:20.718+10:002011-08-09T19:03:20.718+10:00I should say that if I were building an industrial...I should say that if I were building an industrial civilisation from scratch, I would definitely go for all fibre and no wireless. It is too late now since the horse has bolted, but I think the theory that the <i>silentium universi</i> is due to murderous Von Neumann machines is just plausible enough that we should have stayed silent.Chris Fellowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020350770567584929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-24135710190999837452011-08-08T17:24:55.460+10:002011-08-08T17:24:55.460+10:00It's not really about you.
Hehe, just remembe...<i>It's not really about you.</i><br /><br />Hehe, just remembering your take on unfair dismissal laws back in 2007.<br /><br />If the government wants to build high-speed Melbourne/Brisbane rail past my house (which will just be likely to squash me flat) or a national nuclear waste repository (which will just be likely to irradiate me), they should go ahead. I don't mind infrastructure projects so long as they are not stupid.Chris Fellowshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020350770567584929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-62252226598714037392011-08-08T14:43:48.599+10:002011-08-08T14:43:48.599+10:00I don't think there are *that* many lessons fo...<i>I don't think there are *that* many lessons for us</i><br />The population density profile probably matters more than the average density, but I see your point, maybe there are lessons for the US, though.<br /><br /><br /><br /><i>The whole argument is irrelevant to me:</i><br />It's not really about you. In fact, what annoys me most about democracies is that voters have such a narrow form of selfishness. If infrastructure doesn't benefit communities more than the sum of benefits for the individual, it is not really infrastructure.<br /><br />Information customers (Students, lecturers?) of the University will be able to receive more information more reliably, as well as suppliers being able to send same. Similar argument with home - downstream issues resolve themselves quicker with a general improvement in capacity and speed.Marco Parigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00702055111711651319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5104479.post-1572674260505549402011-08-08T13:27:45.502+10:002011-08-08T13:27:45.502+10:00I don't think there are *that* many lessons fo...I don't think there are *that* many lessons for us, since thanks to a lower population density spectrum just isn't that valuable on this patch of the planet.<br /><br />The whole argument is irrelevant to me: since work already has better broadband than the NBN will deliver; and there will *never* be FTTH at my place, barring Tony Windsor becoming God-King and building a palace next door, or the Chinese Communist Party acquiring us and building a satellite city for 250,000 people, ditto.Dr Clamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14985493422534275997noreply@blogger.com